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specimens the panicle bears 2 to 6 racemes, which are from one-half to 1 inch 
long. 
Var. minor var. nov. Slender, much branched, 6 to 12 inches high, leaves 1 
to 3 inches long, 2 to 5 lines wide, bristles about as long as the spikelets, which 
are 14 to 14 lines long. Colima, Mexico, No. 1256 E. Palmer, 1891. 
IL A LIST OF THE GRASSES COLLECTED BY DR. E. PALMER IN 
THE VICINITY OF ACAPULCO, MEXICO, 1894-98. u 27 
* JOLT TT amas 
By F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER. mms ea 
The statements relative to the habitat, distribution, economic value, 
ete., in the following list are from Dr. Palmer's notes 
Paspalum platycaule Poir. (Paspalum compressum Nees). Found in thick masses 
around a spring in the higher mountains. The ege stems often 2 feet high, 
with leaves 7 to 9 inches long. February, 1895 
Panicum paspaloides Pers. In thickets along river pee December, 1894 
289). 
Panicum sanguinale L. One specimen only, found in a garden, where the soil was 
moist. March, 1895 (549). From characters this is Panicum inequale Fourn. 
L. var. breviglume Trin. 3 distans Doell. Found among 
weeds in a dried- up river bed. February, 1895 
Panicum sanguinale L. var. longiglume Doell. La common grass in ravines, often 
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Panicum insulare Meyer (Panicum leucopharum HBK. , Andropogon insulare L.). 
Among thorny bushes in river bottoms. December, 1894 ( 
Panicum brevifolium L. In a shady spot near a water hole. Disember: 1894 (287). 
Panicum divaricatum L. A cane-like grass along river banks in the dense under- 
Panicum compactum Sw. In similar situations with the last, November, 1894 
(115). This is the same as 283 Liebmanr 
Oplismenus cristatus Presl (0. humboldtians var. genuinus Fourn., excl. syn.). 
Found in large ma n river bottoms in the thick, shady woods. October, 1894 
(35). 3 22 (1890); Palmer x (1891); Fendler 363 (1850). This 
species has been contused ien O. humboldtianus Nees, from which it is distin- 
guished by the somewhat longer and more densely pilose empty glumes, which 
National Herbarium by No. es 8 and No. 3120 rà e (Herb. 
Inst. Costa Rica). 
Cenchrus tribuloides L. Common on sandy beaches. December, 1894 (290). 
is a low diffusely branching form with only a few heads on each stalk. It is the 
same as a specimen in the National Herbarium, collected near Rio Janeiro, by the 
Wilkes expedition. 
Cenchrus multiflorus Presl. This grass, which grows to the height of 2 to 1 ni 
and is eaten when young by cattle, occurs in depressions among the rocks from 
near the water's edge to the att of the slopes facing the sea. November, 1894 
(75), Liebmann 341, referred to by Fournier. 
tum purpurascens HBK. Growing in clumps 5 to : feet high, among the 
oaks on the higher mountain slopes. e e 1895 (433 
phora e Schreb Found i in masses shaded es ravines 
1894 (38). A nd i t the lower joints. The ae og 1% 
3 inches long) leaves and sheaths pilose or ena. ud 
'URNIERA Scribn., gen. nov. Tribe Zoysiew. Plants dicecious. Spikelets die- D 
similar, solitae and sessile at the alternate notches of a continuo ous flexuose : 
