No. 6. 
PHALARIS INTERMEDIA Bose. var. ANGUSTA Chap. (P. an- 
. gusta Nees.). 
Plant perennial, rather coarse, usually glaucous throughout. 
ms somewhat tufted, erect, sometimes branching below, terete, smooth, or 
scabrous above, 2 to 4 feet tall. : 
Leaves; radical, few, 2 to 4 inches long, scarious in mature specimens; of culm 
4 or 5; sheaths usually shorter than internodes, rather loose, close, smooth, blades 
flat, taper-pointed, scabrous on both sides, 3 to 5 lines wide, 3 to 6 inches long; 
ligule prominent, membranaceous, obtuse, lacerate in age, 2to3lineslong. 
Inflorescence a dense, cylindrical spike 4 inch in diameter, 2 to 4 inches long; 
the shortly-pedicellate spikelets crowded on short, much divided, appressed 
ranches. 
Spikelets with one perfect flower, and two opposite, small rudimentary scale 
or glumes below the perfect flower and closely appressed against it, 14 to 2 lines 
long; first and second glumes nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, carinate, slightly 
PLATE VI; a, empty glumes; b, floral glume; e¢, palet. 
Grows from Florida to Texas and California. In Texas it has been cultivated, 
and is a very prolific and valuable grass, 
