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Rocky seacoast, West Indies. 
Bauamas: Eleuthera, Geogr. Soc. Baltimore 349. New Providence, 
Geogr. Soc. Baltimore 7, 301; Curtiss 131; Eggers 43338. 
Cusa: Boca de Canasi, Léon 13174. Postelillo, Ekman 15411. 
Cajobabo, Léon 12317. Guantanamo, Hkman in 1922; Mioram 2168. 
Punta Brava, Rugel 870. Uvero Alto, Léon 14674. Bahia de 
Manati, Léon 15751. 
JAMAICA: Cane River Valley near coast, Harris 11312. Health- 
shire Hills, Harris 11622; Hitchcock 9761 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 698). 
Hartt: Cabaret, Leonard 11801, 11857, 11861, 12043. Monte 
Cabrete, Cook, Scofield, and Doyle 72. Source-Matelas, Hkman H 2149. 
Jean Rabel, Leonard 12849, 13009. St. Marc, Leonard 3418. Ran- 
delle, Ekman H 677. Ennery, Leonard 8850a, 8880. Tortuga Island, 
Leonard 11527, 15394. Gonaive Island, Leonard 3414. 
Dominican Repusuic: Higiiey, Ekman H 12224. Moncidn, Valeur 
215, 799. Santo Domingo, Hggers 2361. Puerto Plata, Eggers 
2517. Azua, Rose 3825. Barahona, Fuertes 808; Ekman H 6724. 
Guayubin, Abbott 873, 896. Puerto Francés, Abbott 1215. Sostia, 
Ekman H 14477. 
Puerto Rico: Guanica, Chase 6526; Britton, Cowell, and Brown 
4890. Cabo Rojo, Sintenis 839, 840; Britton, Cowell, and Brown 
4708. Guayanilla, Shafer 1992. Cayo Muertos, Britton, Cowell, 
and Brown 5002. Cayo Puerto Real, Shafer 2768. Puerto Diablo, 
Shafer 2938. 
VirGcin Isuanps: St. Thomas, Eggers in 1882. Little St. James 
Island, Britton and Rose 1414. 
ib ACALYELTS Le iSpabl Gin 1753 
Spikelets few-flowered, compressed, finally disarticulating between 
the florets, nearly sessile in dense 1- sided fascicles, these borne at the 
ends of the few branches of a panicle ; olumes. unequal, carinate, 
acute, hispid-ciliate on the keel; lemmas compressed-keeled, mucron- 
ate, 5-nerved, ciliate on the keel. Perennials, with flat blades and 
fascicled spikelets. 
1. Dactylis glomerata L., Sp. Pi.71. 1753. Europe. ORrcHARD GRASS. 
Rather coarse roughish perennial commonly about 1 m tall; blades 
flat; panicles of few to several branches naked at base, bearing toward 
the ends clusters of densely crowded, sparsely pilose spikelets 0.8 to 
1 cm long. 
Commonly cultivated in the United States as a meadow grass and 
frequent as an escape. In England called cocksfoot. Not grown in 
the West Indies. 
JAMAICA: Cinchona, Harris 11779. Without locality, Hart 744. 
17. GYNERIUM Willd.; Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 138. pl. 24. f.6. 1812 
Plants dioecious; spikelets several-flowered; pistillate spikelets with 
long-attenuate olumes and smaller long- silky lemmas; staminate 
spikelets with shorter glumes and glabrous lemmas. Large perennial 
reed. 
