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j Lycurus phalaroides HBK. nenden gia lycuroides Vasey; Lycurus n 
Seribn. we San Cristobal, Chiapas; altitude, 7,000 to 8,800 feet. September 18, 
895; 3. This agrees with HBK's description, niic that the leaf sheaths 
5 a hirsute and the upper are glume is not bitid or trifid at the apex. 
is the same as 680 Botteri; 489 Palmer, 1886; and 2470 Pringle, 1889. 
nicus crinitum rend. Near Reyes, Oaxaca; altitude, 2,500 to 4,000 feet. 
E Oetober 24, 1894 ; 
Sp Scribn. in Beal, Grasses N. Am., II, 302 (1896). A slender, 
densely ciespitose annual, 6 to 12 inches high, with r ether short, narrow leaves, 
sparingly pilose; ligule nearly obsolete, very minutely ciliate; leaf n: 1to2 
inches long or less, mostly less than a line wide, broadest at the base, smooth 
beneath, minutely scabrous above, ciliate along the margins, the hairs iet 
from distinct papille, apex pungent pointed. 
3 Panicle long exserted, the capillary branches 
q spreading, flower bearing above the middle, 5 to 
6 in the lowes whorl, becoming fewer above, the 
longer lower branches one-half to three-fourths 
inch long. Spikelets 1 line Nee empty glumes 
unequal, the first acute and abont half as long as 
the second, which nearly equals eod ratherobtuse 
i; 
: 
2-lobed at the apex, and cleft to the base in fruit. 
Caryopsis somewhat od the flowering 
1 glumein length, and protruding from the spikelet 
E between the glumes and the cleft palea. (Fig. 5.) 
| long roadsides between Tuxtla and San Cris- 
tobal, State of Chiapas, Mexico, No. 3120, Septem-  Fie.5. 3 macrospermus : 
ber 14, 1895. Also Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, 4 spikelets 
caryopsis; c, floret, with ripe 
caryopsis 
+ 
Mexico, No, 2048 Pringle, 1888, and No. 2447 Pringle 
1889; granitic soil, hills of Las Sedas, altitude 6,000 
feet, State of Oaxaca, Mexico, No. 4943 Pringle, md. fen de Ayarza, Depart- 
ment of Jalapa, Guatemala, No. 3925 Heyde & L 1892. Very elosely related 
to if not identical with Sporobolus rupestris Kunth. 
Epicampes berlandieri Fourn. Near Reyes, Oa N altitude, 5,800 to 6,700 feet. 
October 20, 1894; 1778. Between para and Petatlan, Guerrero; altitude, 
5,000 to 7,000 fol December 14, 1894; 2 
Epicampes re Rupr. Near Reyes, . altitude, 5,800 to 6,700 feet. Octo- 
_ ber 20, 1894; 
vectra E unth. (Arena deyeuxioides HBK; Deyeuxia triflora Nees.) 
West qur of Mount eee altepec, Oaxaca; altitude, 7,700 to 8,000 feet. July 
5, 1894; This agrees in the details of the spikelets and in the form of the 
panicle we 735 Liebmann, S at Chinantla, May, 1841, but the culm is 
shorter and more robust, and the leaves are shorter. 
Trisetum paniculatum Fourn. Between Ayusinapa and Petatlan, Guerrero; alti- 
ap a 
smooth, or the lower ones more or less pubescent; ligule short, membranous, 
— obtuse, 1 line long or less, decurrent; leaf-blade 1 line or less wide; 
This eee and some € here presented were in type before the publication of Beal's 
en 
the base 3 to 6 inches er those of the eulm shorter and narrower, | cu 
