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erect or nodding, the axis very scabrous, more or less papillose-hispid on the angles; 

 racemes appressed or ascending, single or, in the larger plants, usually fascicled, 

 approximate or the lower somewhat distant, sometimes branched, as much as 10 cm. 

 long, the rachis hispidulous and more or less papillose-hispid, especially at base; 

 spikelets closely arranged, several on short branches of the raceme, mostly long- 

 awned, often purple, about 3 mm. long; sterile floret with a palea, neuter, the awn 

 usually 1 to 2 cm. long, sometimes longer, more rarely reduced to a short point; fruit 

 about 3 mm. long, fusiform, about 1 mm. wide, narrower and more fusiform than in 

 E. crusgalli. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Coastal Plain, Massachusetts to Floridaand Texas; also Michigan to Illinois; Cuba. 



Massachusetts: West Barnstable, Knouiton in 1911. 



New Jersey: Point Pleasant, Pollard in 1897. Little Silver, Scribner in 1891. 

 Atlantic City, Scribner in 1895. Clifton, Nash in 1889. Port Norris, Holmes 399. 



Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Smith. 



Ohio: St. Marys, Wetzstein 6905; Kneuck. Gram. Exs. 75. Sandusky, Moseley in 1898. 



Indiana: Little Chapman Lake, Beam 21975. Blue Lake, Beam 21700. Wilson, 

 Hill in 1898. 



Illinois: Peoria, Brendel. St. Clair County, Eggert 232. Chicago, Chase 1426. 



Michigan: Port Huron, Bodge 145. Detroit, Farwell in 1901. 



Wisconsin: Sauk City, Luders in 1884. 



Delaware: Collins Beach, Commons in 1865. Wilmington, Commons in 1897^ 



Maryland: Chesapeake Beach, Hitchcock 2388. Little Gunpowder River, Shull 308. 



Virginia: Virginia Beach, Williams 3101; Hitchcock in 1902. 



North Carolina: Wilmington, Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 431. Elizabeth City, Boettcher 

 290. 



South Carolina: Aiken, Ravenel in 1869. Georgetown, Alexander 167. Orange- 

 burg, Hitchcock in 1905. 



Georgia: Americus, Harper 539. 



Florida: Orange County, Fredholm 5420, 5455. Cedar Key, Combs 787, 797. Talla- 

 hassee, Kearney 72. Duval County, Fredholm 245. Jacksonville, Hitchcock in 

 1900; Combs 21; Curtiss 5023, 5091. Gainesville, Combs 747; Chase 4233. 

 Sanibel Island, Hitchcock in 1900. Hillsborough County, Fredholm. 6342. Pablo 

 Beach, Combs 48. Homosassa, Combs 962. Bartow, Combs 1199. Apalachicola, 

 Kearney 100; Biltmore Herb. 809b. Lake City, Combs 143; Hitchcock 2550. 

 Grasmere, Combs 1060. Citrus County, Hitchcock 2549. Marion County, Hitch- 



' cock 2548. Miami, Hitchcock in 1903. St. Vincent Island, McAtee 1689B. Palma 

 Sola, Tracy 7036. Monticello, Combs 311. 



Kentucky: Reelfoot Lake, Alexander 307. 



Mississippi: Cat Island, Tracy & Lloyd 442. 



Louisiana: Alexandria, Hale in 1840. Houma, Wurzlow in 1913. Marksville, 

 McAtee 2210. Pointe a la Hache, Langlois in 1885. New Orleans, Waite in 1885. 

 Lake Charles, Allison 101. 



Texas: Houston, Thurow in 1898. Galveston, Hitchcock in 1903. Western Texas, 

 Wright 795. Uvalde, Palmer 1340 in 1880. 



Cuba: Hanabana, Wright 3879 in part. 



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6. Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv. 



Panicum crusgalli L. Sp. PI. 56. 1753. "Habitat in Europae, Virginiae cultis." 

 The type of Panicum crusgalli was discussed in an earlier paper. 1 The only specimen 

 in the Linnaean Herbarium upon which Linnaeus has written the name is a sheet 



1 Hitchcock, Types of American grasses. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 117. 1908. 

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