No. 6. 



PHALARIS INTERMEDIA Bosc. var. ANGUSTA Chap. {P.an- 



gusta Nees.). 



Plant perennial, rather coarse, usually glaucous throughout. 



Culms somewhat tufted, erect, sometimes branching below, terete, smooth, or 

 scabrous above, 2 to 4 feet tall. 



Leaves; radical, few, 2 to 4 inches loug, scarious in mature specimens; of culm 

 4 or 5; sheaths usually shorter than internodes, rather loose, close, smooth, blades 

 flat, taper-pointed, scabrous on both sides, 3 to 5 lines wide, 3 to 6 inches long; 

 ligule prominent, membranaceous, obtuse, lacerate in age, 2 to 3 lines long. 



Inflorescence a dense, cylindrical spike I inch in diameter, 2 to 4 inches long; 

 the shortly-pedicellate spikelets crowded on short, much divided, appressed 

 branches. 



Spikelets with one perfect flower, and two opposite, small rudimentary scales 

 or glumes below the perfect flower and closely appressed against it, 14, to 2 lines 

 long; first and second glumes nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, cai'inate, slightly 

 winged on keel above, herbaceous, hispid on keel, l-£ to 2 lines long; flowering 

 glume coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, rounded, completely enveloping grain, clothed 

 throughout with short, appressed, brittle hairs, nearly smooth and shining at ma- 

 turity, light-brown, 14, lines long; palet narrow, pubescent, 1 line long, l-nerve<l. 



Grain oval, slightly compressed, and with small hook at apex, whitish, f to 1 

 line long, inclosed in flowering glume from which it is extracted with difficulty. 



Plate VI; a, empty glumes; b, floral glume; c, palet. 



Grows from Florida to Texas and California. In Texas it has been cultivated, 

 and is a very prolific and valuable grass. 



