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to three-fourths as long as the erect or spreading florets, prolonged 

 beyond the uppermost floret; stamens 3. 



A specimen of this collection was sent to Hackel, together with 

 notes on the structure of the spikelet. In reply he writes: "It agrees 



proposed by me, especially because thereby the position of the glumes 

 becomes entirely natural and comprehensible." 



The 3-flowered spikelets place this genus in the tribe Festuceae, but 

 where it should be placed in that tribe I am not prepared to say; it is 

 not closely related to any other known genus. In the National Herba- 

 rium it is placed for the present between subtribe Meliceae and subtribe 

 Centotheceae. The name Aphanelytrum, referring doubtless to invisible 

 glumes, is not so inept, fortunately, since the glumes are very small — 

 Agnes Chase, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C. 



actly with the type 



ist agree that this explar 



. After careful weighing of the evidence I 

 ination is more satisfactory than the one 



