180 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



or scabrous-hispid on the angles, more or less retrorsely so; branches closely many- 

 flowered, scabrous-hispid on the angles like the axis, the cluster oblong, 3 to 10 mm. 

 long, the branchlets very short, bearing 1 to 4 spikelets, a bristle below each spikelet; 

 bristles 1 to 3 times as long as the spikelets, somewhat flexuous, retrorsely scabrous 

 to base, this often flattened; spikelets about 2 mm. long, oblong-elliptic, not very 

 turgid on the convex side; first glume about one-third as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved; 

 second glume and sterile lemma as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved, the sterile palea 

 usually partially developed; fertile lemma finely cross-wrinkled. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



A weed in cultivated soil and waste places, here and there throughout the United 

 States, especially in the eastern states, south to Guatemala and Cuba. Introduced 

 from Europe; said by Stapf 1 to be native in "Africa and India to Malaya, else- 

 where (Europe, Australia, America) only as a weed." 

 Ontario: Gait, Herriot in 1908. 



Massachusetts: Boston, Boott in 1861; Morong in 1877. Salem, Conant in 1879. 

 Connecticut: Hartford, Bissell in 1903. 



New Jersey: Woodport, Fisher in 1898. Camden, Scribner 117; Martindale in 1877. 

 Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Burk. Harrisburg, Hitchcock in 1902. Easton, Porter 



in 1895. 

 Indiana: Bluffton, Williamson 20841. Lafayette, Dorner 75. 

 Illinois: Oquawka, Patterson in 1874. Wady Petra, V. H. Chase 77. 

 Michigan: Saugatuck, Umbach in 1898. 

 Wisconsin: Oshkosh, Random in 1896. 

 South Dakota: Vermillion, Over 5093. 

 Iowa: Mount Pleasant, Mills 773. Mount Ayr, Beard 929. Iowa City, Hitchcock in 



1887; Somes 3699. 

 Missouri: St. Louis, Eggert 267. Independence, Bush 776. 

 Delaware: Wilmington, Commons 145 in 1897. 



District of Columbia: Ward in 1882; Steele in 1898; Merrill 177; Vasey in 1878. 

 Alabama: Mobile, Mohr in 1891. 

 Utah: Salt Lake City, Hitchcock in 1901. 

 New Mexico: Mesilla Valley, Wooton & Standley in 1907. 

 California: Upland, Johnston 1639. 



Coahuila: Saltillo, Hitchcock 5640. Parras, Palmer 453 in 1898. 

 Jalisco: Tequila, Palmer 404 in 1886. Guadalajara, Palmer 484 in 1886. 

 Guanajuato: Irapuato, Hitchcock 7438. 



Queretaro: Queretaro, Hitchcock 5806, 5807; Arsene 10279, 10381; Basile 49, 50. 

 Puebla: Tehuacan, Hitchcock 6054, 6064, 6084£. 

 Oaxaca: Oaxaca, Pringle 4920; Hitchcock 6118. 

 Guatemala: Antigua, Kellerman 4814. Ciudad Vieja, Tejada 311. 

 Bermuda: Collins 161; Brown & Britton 116, 302; Harshberger in 1905; Millspaugh 



99, 127. 

 Cuba: Habana, Gurtiss 693; Hitchcock 491; Leon 555; Liebmann 348. Bejucal, Lieb- 



mann 347. Guanabatano, Liebmann 346. 



9. Chaetochloa scandens (Schrad.) Scribn. 



Setaria scandens Schrad.; Schult. Mant. 2: 279. 1824. The locality is not indicated. 

 In the Trinius Herbarium is a specimen of "Setaria scandens Schrad. IT. Gottinc. .' 

 which is probably a part of the type material. " Penniset. scandens Jacq. fil. Cat. Sem. 

 Hort. Vind. 1801" is cited as a synonym. This reference to a seed catalogue of the 

 Vienna Garden has not been verified. The name there is doubtless a nomen nudum. 



1 In Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 430. 1899. 



