No. 
TRIODIA ALBESCENS (Munro.). (Tricuspis albescens Munro in Herb.) 
Plant perennial, with slightly thickened base, smooth and often glaucous 
ma aoe 
Roots ¢ 
Culms foaaie tufted, erect, solid, terete, not branching, 15 to 30 inches tall. 
Leaves; radical, sheaths short and open; blades flat or folded, involute, slen- 
der-pointed, 2 to 3 lines wide, 5 to 12 inches long; of culm 2 to 4, sheaths shorter 
than internodes, open above; blades like those of radical leaves; ligule a dense line - 
of short, fine hairs. 
Inflorescence a slender, contracted, close panicle, somewhat interrupted below, 
erect or slightly nodding, $ inch wide, 4 to 8 inches long; branches appressed, un- 
equal, 4 to 1} = long, bearing along their entire fongth rather crowded short- 
pedicelled spikelets 
Spikelets oval, SDD RKGaT 8- to 12-flowered, 24 to 3 lines long and % as wide; 
first and second glumes nearly equal, second, slightly larger, broadly ovate, 
acute, carinate, hyaline, smooth, 1-nerved, 1$ lines long; internodes of rachis 
curved, + line long or less; floral glume broadly-elliptical, 3-nerved, emarginate or 
nearly entire, hyaline, smooth, or nearly so, midnerve slightly if at all excurrent, 
lateral nerves not marginal; palet broadly ovate, obtuse, 2-keeled with the mar- 
gins folded fiat, 14 lines long. 
Grain elliptical, yellow, 3 line long. 
Puate XXXIII; a, spikelets; b, empty glumes; ce, floral glumes; d, palet. 
Texas and New Mexico. 
