Plants Collected in Paraguay. 2*l5 



hairs. Panicle close, 3 or 4 cm. long, with 3-5 short branches below ; 

 S-*! flowers in the flat spikelets; glumes and palets mixed purple and 

 white. One of the feeding grasses for cattle on the Gran Campo, 

 about 5 miles east of Asuncion. 



Poa airoides (Nees), Kunth, Enum., i, 360. 



Asuncion (550). January. 



Growing in dry open thickets in the Chaco opposite Asuncion. 

 Culms 3-5 dm. high. Panicle very diffuse, as long as or longer 

 than the culms. One I measured was t dm. in length, with numer- 

 ous branches, some of them 15 cm. long, 1-4 rising together from 

 the rachis. Flowers minute, 1 or 2 in a spikelet ; the spikelets on 

 capillary peduncles, and greatly scattered. Nerves of the flowering 

 glume nearly or quite obsolete. Glumes lead-colored and scantily 

 hairy at the base, A fine grass for mantel ornamentation. 



Bromus unioloides (Willd.), Nees, Agrost. Bras., 470. 

 La Plata, Argentine Republic (21). October. 



Cliusquea teuella, Nees, Linnsea, ix, 492 ? 



Near Asuncion (755 a). June. 



Without flowers or fruit. Found with no. 755 in swampy woods 

 near Asuncion. A lower and more slender culm than 755 ; leaves 

 short, glabrous, nerved, lanceolate, rounded or semicordate at base, 

 on a short petiole ; the sheaths slightly open, hairy fringed at the 

 mouth. Short branches and leaves fascicled at the nodes, the culms 

 often tapering into a long, very slender termination, and the nodes 

 much longer than the leaves, sometimes 20 cm. A Chusquea with- 

 out doubt, and corresponding, so far as these specimens go, to C\ 

 tenella, as described in Flor. Bras. 



EQUISETACE^. 

 l^quisetuiii giganteum, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 1517. 

 Pileomayo River (1000). April. 



SALYINIACE^. 

 SalTinia auricula ta, Aubl., PI. Guian., ii, 969. 



Asuncion (289, 1579). December. = Balansa 1122. 



