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upper one linear-lanceolate, scabrous, entire, nearly as long as the 
spikelets; lower palea of the perfect flower unequally tricuspidate, 
pubescent; abortive flower reduced toa slender awn, which is nearly 
and inconspicuous bristles. Valle of the Gila, rare. This plant 
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‘agrees pretty well with Kanth’s description of B. (Eutriana,) race- 
mosa, except in the pubescent lower palea, and the minute bristles _ 
it be the plant of La- 
asca Or om his brief character. 
It certainly is very different from B. racemosa of the United States, 
which has a large 3-awned neuter flower, and if distinct from La- 
asca’s, must receive another name. That of B. curtipendula 
at the base of the neuter flower. Wheihea 
one of the species of ‘‘Grama’”so aséful as a fodder-grass in New 
Mexico. It is abundant along the Del Norte, and in the region be- 
_ tween that river and the waters of the Gila. The culm is slender, 
Chondrosium feneum, n. sp. Leaves glabrous; spikes 2—3, ob- 
long, falcate, spreading; rachis nearly half the length of the spikes; 
‘lume nearly as long at the perfect flower, with two rows of 
-_ of Nuttall. a 
Chondrosium polystachyum, Benth. bot. Sulph. p. 56. Uplands 
_bordering the Gila. The smallest kind of “ Grama’’ found on t 
linear, and almost half an inch long, erect, on s 
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