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nut brown, as long as the glume, the pale margins very narrow, in- 
folding the palea its entire length. 
Perennial erect grasses with short 
creeping rhizomes, narrow, firm, flat 
blades, the uppermost much reduced, and 
narrow panicles, the slender branches 
ascending or appressed. Species two, on 
the Coastal Plain of the southeastern 
United States. 
Type species: Phalaris rillosa Michx. 
Anthaenantia Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 48, pi. 10, 
f. 7. 1812. Phalaris villosa is the only species 
mentioned. 
Aulaxanthus Ell., Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 102. 
1816. Two species are described, A. ciliatus and 
A. rufus. The first, which 
is the same as Anthaenantia 
villosa, is accepted as the 
type. 
Aulaxia Nutt, Gen. PI. 1: 
47. 1818. Nnttall changes 
Elliott's name Aulaxanthns 
to Aulaxia. 
Anthaenantia villosa 
(Michx.) Beauv. (fig. 
128), with comparatively 
short, spreading blades 
and usually pale panicle, 
nd A. rufa (Ell.) 
Schult., with long erect 
blades and usually pur- 
ple panicle, are of no 
economic importance. 
Fig. 128. — Anthaenantia villosa. Plant, X 1 ; spikelet and fertile floret, X 10. 
109. Valota Adans. 
Spikelets lanceolate, in pairs, short-pediceled, in two rows along 
one side of a narrow rachis; first glume minute, glabrous; 
