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sparingly pilose and minutely DM scabrous above; panicle branches slender, 
exuose, ascending or finally r less spr eading, solitary or two or three 
together at the aoda es and semi- etica, naked below, flower-bearing above, 
the lowermost 2 to 3 inches long. Spikelets ovate lanceolate, acute, 2- to 3-flow- 
ered, 2 to 3 lines long; outer glumes unequal, the first narrowly lanceolate and 
about 1 line long, acute, 1-nerved ; the second brudder, oblong lanceolate, obtuse, 
nearly 1j lines long. 3-nerved ; first flowering glume nearly 2 lines s long, raised 
on a distinet callus, iia sm oblong, obtuse or truncate and erose at the apex, 
5-nerved, the mid-nerve often prolonged into a very short awn, the glume bar- 
bate at the base aa pubescent on the back excepting in the upper third; second 
and third glumes similar ka the first, but somewhat smaller; palea usually about 
pee Auth shorter than itt s «age along the vi excepting near hr 
n, 8 
locality. This grass does not agree in 
all its characters with Graphephorem, 
nor with Colpodium, but its ies 
are apparently with the osi poe 
Campulosus planifolius Presl Reliq. 
Henk. * Seribn. & 
mith, Coult. Bot. Gaz., 21: 362, 1896 !). 
gama Fourn., Bromus virgatus dipl: 
"eod Dalistaquili borra Decem 
ber 10, 1894; 225 
Poa toi rata be Mount dre | 
eblo; altitude, 14,900 to 15,000 fee i 
5 287. 
Festuca amplissima Rupr. Northwest 
side of summit of Mount Zempoaltepec, 
Fig. 6.—Grapheph pringlei Oaxaca; ima: 10,000 to 11,000 feet. | 
uly 9,1 648. 1 
ostylidium racemiflorum Steud. Se ys aci toria Fourn.). Hacienda i 
Mirador, Vera Cruz, February, 1894; 
Chusquea nelsoni Seribn. & Smith, sp. Culms climbing, geniculate at the 
nodes, solid, one-fourth inch in iame beg the internodes about 1 foot 
long 3 fasciculate lateral branches 8 to 12 inches long scia the nodes; sans 
2to3inches long, narr zrny lanecolate acuminate, gradually rounding at the base 
into a short petiole, seabrou Lon the margins, hirsute-canescent below; 
ligule short, ‘rounded; perpe: finely striate, smooth with a tumid ring at the base; 
panicle spikelike, contr cted, interrupted be ow, 1 to 2} inches long, once or twice 
VORNE the chidas strict; lowest empty glumes one-half line long, obtuse 
or e andy ciliate on the margins above; third.empty glume 14 lines 
h emp 
times mucronate, pu ae for ike y upper 8 má al Arn as long as i 
gume, „ sulcate and Dice, 5 bifid i ptanjens, 3; pad n 
Between Chi re and 
„„ is pués to C. cummingii N di "differing in the shape ta fizo of 
the lowest empty comes H the pubescent flowering glume, and the tumid ring at 
the base of the leaf sheath 
ince this publication tho author authors have s seen fo PEN aola of Campulosus planifolius in the 
h Ctenium glandulosum S. € S. isidentical NOE ES 
