No. 26. 
SCHEDONNARDUS TEXANUS Steud. (Lepturus paniculatus Nutt.) 
Plant a low straggling annual. 
Culm tufted and branching at base, spreading, slender, terete, or compressed, 
hollow, minutely pubescent. 
eaves; radical and from radical shoots, numerous, folded, spirally twisted, 
with short, cartilaginous points; of culm 1 or 2 equaled or exceeded by those of 
the base; sheaths loose, compressed, open above; blades flat or folded, spirally 
twisted, smooth, 2 to 3 inches long; ligule ovate, acute, lacerate, decurrent in sca- 
rious margins down the sheath. 
Inflorescence a loose racemose panicle, the spikelets sessile and appressed in 
excavations in the horizontally spreading branches, which are 1 to 4 inches long, 
alternate and distant on the triangular hispid rachis. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, narrow, 14 to 2 lines long; first glume lanceolate, some- 
times toothed on the margin, scarious-margined, ? line long, sometimes 1 sided, 1 
prominent hispid nerve, sometimes excurrent in an awn one-half as long as the glume; 
second glume same but nearly twice as large; floral glume narrowly lanceolate, 
acute or mucronulate, 3-nerved, rounded on back, hispid on the midnerve, slightly 
pubescent at base, 14 lines long; palet ovate, obtuse, or Bed toothed, round on 
back, hyaline, 2- wewrends 1} to 14 lines long. 
Grain dark reddish, translucent-amber, with darker oblique chit extending 
one-third way from base, narrowly cylindrical, 1 line long, falling free or with 
disarticulate branch. 
Piate XXVI; a, branch with spikelets in position; b, spikelet; c, second 
empty glume; d, first empty glume; e, palet; f, floral glume. 
Texas to Arizona, northward to Dakota and British America. 
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