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Puerto Rico: Mona Island, Hess 444; Britton, Cowell, and Hess 
1777. Desecheo, Hess 427, 1607. Punta Aguila, Britton, Cowell, 
and Brown 4689. 
VirGin Isuanps: St. Thomas, Eggers in 1881, 1882. 
LrEewarp Isuanps: Antigua, Box 69, 87, 106. Guadeloupe, Duss 
3164. 
WINDWARD IsLaNps: Martinique, Duss 1329. 
TrinipAD: Bot. Gard. Herb. 3310. 
TRIBE 3. HORDEAE 
25. HORDEUM L., Sp. Pl. 84. 1753. Baruny 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in clusters of 3 at each joint of an articulate 
rachis, the middle spikelet sessile, perfect, the lateral spikelets stip- 
itate, reduced to the awnlike olumes: glumes and lemmas awned. 
1. Hordeum pusillum Nutt., Gen. Pl. 1: 87. 1818. Missouri Valley. 
LITTLE BARLEY. 
Low, usually branched, annual with cylindric spikes 3 to 8 cm 
long, a part of the glumes dilated above the base. 
Open dry ground, western United States, but introduced eastward 
and in Bermuda. 
Brermupa: Brown 694. 
Wueat (Triticum aestwum L.) and ry. (Secale cereale L.) are 
occasionally grown in the mountain regions and sometimes may be 
spontaneous but do not persist. Triticum spinulosum Lag. (Gen. et 
Sp. Nov. 7. 1816) described from Havana, collected by Balthazar 
Boldo, may belong to 7. aestivum. 
PARIANA SYLVESTRIS Nees (Agrost. Bras. 295. 1829), a Brazilian 
species, is mentioned by Grisebach as having been found in St. 
Vincent by Guilding, ‘‘perhaps introduced.” 
26. LOLIUM L.., Sp. Pl. 88. 1753. Rygcrass 
Spikelets several-flowered, solitary and sessile, placed edgewise to 
the continuous rachis, one edge fitting to the alternate concavities, 
the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; 
first glume wanting (except on the terminal spikelet), the second 
outward, strongly 3- to 5-nerved, equaling or exceeding the second 
floret; lemmas rounded on the back, 5- to 7-nerved, obtuse, acute, 
or awned. Annuals or perennials, with flat blades and simple ter- 
minal flat spikes. 
Glume longer than the spikelet; annual____.___-.___-_--- 1. L. TEMULENTUM. 
Glume shorter than the spikelet; perennial____-________~ 2. L. MULTIFLORUM. 
1. Lolium temulentum L., Sp. Pl. 83. 1753. Europe. DARNEL. 
Lolium maximum Willd., Sp. Pl. 1: 462. 1797. Jamaica. 
Lolvum temulentum var. leptochaeton A. Br., Flora 1: 252. 1884. 
Europe. 
16 F). Brit. W. Ind. 528. 1864. 
