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tuberculate-hirsute with long hairs; spathes 2-3 cm. long; 

 racemes about 2 cm. long, the internodes oblique at the deeply 

 cup-shaped apex, these and the pedicels appressed-hirsute with 

 long hairs below on the back, the internodes long-barbate at 

 the base; sessile spikelets 5-6 mm. long; first scale involute, 

 appressed-hirsute with long hairs, long-acuminate, strongly 2- 

 nerved at the apex, these nerves and the intermediate ones very 

 faint below; flowering scale hyaline, delicate, cleft to below the 

 middle, the awn 8-12 mm. long, the tightly spiral deep brown 

 column about as long as the yellowish subula; pedicellate spike- 

 let about 1.5 mm. long, with a scabrous awn about 3 mm. long. 

 Rocky hill, St. Joris Bay, Curasao, Britton & Shafer, March 

 20-27, 1913, no. 3101. 



Lasiacis Harrisii, sp. nov. 



A branched perennial, of slender climbing habit, with long 

 narrowly lanceolate leaf-blades and linear strict panicles. Stems 

 slender, up to 5 m. long or more, smooth and glabrous; leaf- 

 sheaths glabrous or sometimes ciliate, usually shorter than the 

 internodes; ligule a scarious ring i mm. wide or less; blades 

 narrowly lanceolate, 5-12 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, glabrous, 

 rough on the margins, long-acuminate at the apex, erect or nearly 

 so; panicle 3-6 cm. long, linear, strict, its branches short and 

 appressed; spikelets 3.5-4.5 mm. long, the scales woolly-tipped, 

 the first scale orbicular, obtuse, about one half as long as the 

 spikelet. 



At high elevations in Jamaica. Type collected in the vicinity 

 of Cinchona by Delia W. Marble, Sept. 2-10, 1906, no. 222. 

 Other specimens are: Below Cold Spring Gap, Harris 11,354; 

 Mt. Faraway, Blue Mts., Harris 11,486; Strawberry Hill, Blue 

 Mts., Harris 11,487; base of Catherine's Peak, Harris 11,552; 

 Abbey Green, Blue Mts., Harris 11,587; no locality, J. P. 793, 

 819. George V. Nash 



Burnham's Flora of the Sand Barrens of Southern 

 Staten Island. — In the last number of Torreya the author of 

 the paper under the above title gives an excellent presentation, 

 with a very few exceptions, of the most interesting floral elements 



