No. 36. 

 TRIODIA NEALLEYI Vasey. 



Plant perennial, tufted, with, a bulbous base. 



Culms erect, slender, not branched, terete, smooth, 1 to 2 feet high, nodes ciliate. 



Leaves; radical with pubescent, fringed, scarious-margined sheaths, tapering 

 into narrow, folded, nearly smooth blades 2 to 6 inches long; of culm 3 or 4, sheaths 

 close, smooth, lower ones equaling or exceeding internodes, upper much shorter; 

 blades flat or folded, nearly smooth, 1 to 3 inches long; ligule a narrow, callous 

 line with a loose fringe of hairs. 



Inflorescence a dense spike-like panicle, white, 1 to 2^ inches long, the branches 

 tj to 1 inch long, alternate, closely appressed. 



Spikelets broadly oblanceolate, compressed, 1^ to 2-J lines wide, 2-J to 3 lines, 

 long, 4- to 7-fl.owered; first glume ovate, acute, carinate, translucent, smooth, about 

 2 lines long; second glume same, but ^ line longer; floral glumes oblong, truncate, 

 translucent, prof usely ciliate on the margins and pubescent on the back below, 

 2-lobed or cleft one-third way to base, the two minutely ciliate lobes equaled or 

 exceeded by the intermediate awn, 3-nerved, lateral nerves marginal; palet lance- 

 olate, strongly arched, thin, pubescent on the two prominent keels. 



Grain pale translucent-green, shaped like the quarter of a sphere with brown- 

 ish opaque projection extending along the axis, f line long. 



Plate XXXVI; a, spikelet; b, empty glumes; c, floral glume, dorsal and side 

 view; d, palet. 



Thus far collected only in Texas, by G. C. Nealley, for whom it is named, 



