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from any variety of J. polycephalus I have ever seen. 

 The plant is more robust^ and the florets considerably 



larger. 



(38) Tof 



This plant is abundant 



Wil 



covered his T. glabra, which offers a presumption of their 



Mr 



American Academy, suggests, that they are probably not 

 distinct. . If identical, and I have no doubt they are, he 

 has described from specimens such as I hav6 not seen, 

 as his description Is inapplicable to our plant. 



T. glabra, N. 



T. glaberrima, Ell. 



J- 



Scape 



8-10 inches Stem 18-30 inches high; 



high; Spike 10-15 lines Spike 2-3 inches long; 

 long ; Flowers 30 or more ; Flowers 40-60 ; Bracts half 

 Bracts extremely minute; aslong as the pedicels; Fila- 

 Filaments equal to the pe- ments shorter than the pe- 

 tals and germ ; Styles none ; tals and germ ; Styles short ; 

 Capsules 3, distinct to the Capsules divaricate at the 



base. 



summit. 



(39) Eriocaulon Jlaviduluml Stem pubescent, 5 

 grooved; Leaves short, 1-2 inches long; Scales of the 

 involucrum oblong ovalj obtuse, lucid. 



This appears to be Michaux' plant, but I am not cer- 

 tain that it is Elliott's. 



(40) Andropogon vagindtus^ Ell I 1 have a variety 

 of this plant with the spikes 4 parted, like A. tetrasta- 

 chyus, and the peduncles much exserted like A. argen- 

 teus. The peduncles, however, are not uncommonly 

 exserted in this species, though Elliott represents them as 

 enclosed. 



(41) Aristida lanata, Poir. " Leaves very long, 



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