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apex, bearing from between the teeth a slender bent awn, twisted at 
base; palea a little shorter than the lemma. 
A slender annual with flat blades and narrow panicles. Species 
3.—Limnodea arkansand. 
one, Florida to Texas. 
Type species: Greenia arkansana 
Nutt. 
Greenia Nutt., Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 
5: 142, 1837, not Greenea Wight and 
Arn., 1884. Type G. arkansana, the only 
species described. 
Sclerachne Torr.; Trin., Mém. Acad. 
St. Pétersb. VI. Sci. Nat. 4°: 273, 1841, 
not Sclerachne R. Br. and Benn., 1838. 
Two species are described, S. arkansana 
Torr. and S. pilosa Trin. The first, 
based on Greenia arkansana Nutt., is 
the type. 
Thurberia Benth., Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 19: 58, 1881, not Thurberia A. 
Gray, 1854. Type Greenia arkansana 
Nutt., the name Thurberia being substi- 
tuted for Greenia. 
Limnodea L. H. Dewey, Contr. U. S. 
Nat. Herb. 2: 518. 1894. Only one spe- 
cies described. 
Limnodeéa arkansana 
g (Nutt.) L. H. Dewey 
Vi, (fig. 73), has probably 
if . 
f no agricultural value. 
A form with pilose 
Plant, X 4; spikelet and floret, « 5. 
