36 — 
papa pepan pn dee — of the spike AEREN to hirsute; 
te-pointed.—Seribn. in Fl. Mt. Des. Isl., 
183 (1894); Sea Beach, Mass., W. Boott, July 15, 1868, in Bas. Gray; sil 
Mount Desert Island, Maine. 
Agropyron repens dine reum Anders. An erect purplish-grcen perennial with rigid, 
rene -green glaucous leaves, the lowest culm leaves and the basal sheaths a 
hir , the empty and flowering glumes awn-pointed.—Salt marshes, Cape 1 
ae Me. Cole cted by E. ee in 1860, and F. Lamson-Scribner 
in Jul 5 1895. This form is common to the coast of New England and northern 
Euro 
'The Kante European varieties may occur in this country: 
Agropyron repens agreste Anders. Spike crowded, dull green with crowded 
spikelets; empty glumes acute; flowering glume endesa or mucronate or cus- 
pidate; da hirsute (above). In barren fields. 
Agropyron repens nemorale Anders. ie remotely flowered, bright green, spike- 
lets narrow; empty glumes | e acute; flowering glumes long-awned; leaves 
scabrous al hirsute, 8 and more luxuriant. In mead- 
ows and moist woodlands. An of these are exceedingly variable. 
yu! Pl 9 e 
d VI. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 
^f mit Paspalum scabrum Scribn., sp. nov. 
| 2 Culms 16 inches to 2 feet long, branched below, and geniculate at the lower iate 
* striate and eee scabrous along the strise, nodes densely appressed-pubescent, 
e 
leaf blades 2 to 4 inches long, one-half to nearly 1 inch wide, lanceolate, abruptly 
contracted at the base, acute, rather PONI papillate pilose on both surfaces, 
especially beneath, the narrow portion connecting the blade with the sheath pubes- 
cent, margins and mid-nerve ciliate-scabrous. Panicle about 6 inches long, the 
common axis strongly striate and scabrous; racemes 30 to 50, subfasciculate, about 
1 inch long, shortly pedicellate, pedicel dak brown, pubescent; axis of racemes 
about 1 line wide, flat, or when dry partly folded about the spikelets, very thin, 
nerved, rough-scabrons along the nerves, especially the stronger middle one produced 
beyond the spikelets and mucronate pointed. Spikelets uniseriate on the very short 
pubescent pedicels, oblong, obtuse, a little less than 1 line long, white; first glume 
wanting; second glume very thin, sub-hyaline, 3-nerved, a little longer and broader 
than the smooth and shining flowering gear 
Allied to Paspalum mucronatum Muhl., from which it is distinguished by 
rsely scabrous cu and sheaths, shorter racemes, uniseriate and 9 
spikelets, and in the ilie da of the first glume. Also allied to Paspalum gracile 4 
Rudge, but this has smooth culms, sheaths and leaves, rather longer racemes, and ud 
larger spikelets, which are nearly 1} lines long. 
“Guatemala, No. 3903 Heyde & Lux, 1892. 
e Ichnanthus lanceolatus Scribn. & Smith, sp. nov. e 5 
An erect or ascending, cespitose, branching perennial 1 to 2 feet high, with j 
aber leaves and simple panicles of few loosely flowered racemes. Sheaths | 
shorter than the eee ere, ciliate along the margins, otherwise smooth, or the low- | 
with a narrow, cartilaginous margin, abruptly narrowed at the base, this con- 
traction forming in the lower leaves, especially those of the sterile shoots, a slender 
channeled petiole, which, like the ee ie ciliate along the margins, Panicle 
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