No. 36. 
TRIODIA NEALLEYI Vasey. 
Plant perennial, tufted, with a bulbous base. 
Culms erect, slender, not branched, terete, smooth, 1 to 2 feet high, nodes ciliate. 
Leaves; radical with pubescent, fringed, scarious-margined sheaths, tapering 
into narrow, folded, nearly smooth blades 2 to 6 inches long; of culin 3 or 4, sheaths 
close, smooth, lower ones equaling or exceeding internodes, upper much shorter; 
blades flat or folded, nearly smooth, 1 to 3 inches long; ligule a narrow, callous 
line with a loose fringe of hairs 
Inflorescence a dense spike-like panicle, — 1 to 24 inches long, the brauches 
4 to 1 inch long, alternate, closely appressed. 
Spikelets broadly oblanceolate, compressed, 1} to 24 lines wide, 24 to 3 lines, 
long, 4- to 7-flowered; first glume ovate, acute, carinate, translucent, smooth, about 
2 lines long; second glume same, but $ line longer; floral glumes oblong, truncate, 
fratetacatt. profusely ciliate on the margins and pubescent on the back below, 
2-lobed or cleft one-third way to base, the two minutely ciliate lobes equaled or 
exceeded by the intermediate awn, 3-nerved, lateral nerves marginal; palet lance- 
olate, strongly arched, ‘thin, pubescent on the two prominent keels. 
Grain pale translucent-green, shaped like the quarter of a sphere with brown- 
ish opaque projection extending along the axis, ? line long. 
Puate XXXVI; a, spikelet; b, empty glumes; ¢, floral glume, dorsal and side 
view; d, palet. 
Thus far collected only in Texas, by G. C. Nealley, for whom it is named, 
