MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES Zo 
A weedy grass introduced into America from Europe. Mountains 
of Haiti. 
Harti: Badeau, Ekman H 7616. 
2. Bromus rigidus Roth, Mag. Bot. Roem. et Ust. 10: 21. 1790. 
Europe. RIPGUT GRASS. 
Bromus wvillosus Forsk. Fl. Aegypt, Arab. 23. 1775. Not B. 
villosus Scop., 1772. 
Bromus maximus Desf., Fl. Atlant. 1: 95. pl. 26. 1798. Not B. 
maximus Gilib., 1792. 
; Annual; culms 40 to 70 cm tall; sheaths and blades pilose; panicle 
open, nodding, rather few-flowered, 7 to 15 cm long; the lower branches 
1 to 2 cm long; lemmas 2.5 to 3 cm long, the awn 4 to 5 cm long (fig. 6). 
F Open ground and waste places, introduced into America from 
Kurope. Mountains of Jamaica. 
FIGURE 6.—Bromus rigidus, X 1 (Tracy 4702). 
JAMAICA: Cinchona, Perkins 1075; Hitchcock 9714; Harris 10916, 
11275, 12482a; Orcutt 5480. Arntully, Orcutt 5760. Strawberry 
Hill, Harris 11489. Gordon Town, Hart 738. Without locality, 
Wilson 486. 
3. Bromus catharticus Vahl, Symb. Bot. 2:22. 1791. Peru. 
RESCUE GRASS. 
Bromus unioloides H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 151. 1815. 
Ecuador. 
Annual or biennial; culms as much as 1 m tall; sheaths glabrous or 
pubescent; panicle open, as much as 20 cm long; spikelets 2 to 3 cm 
long, 6- to 12-flowered; lemmas glabrous or scabrous, acuminate, 
about 1 cm long, awnless or with an awn 1 to 3 mm long (fig. 7). 
Cultivated occasionally. Southern and western United States; 
Bermuda, Jamaica, and Haiti; introduced from Europe. 
Bermupa: Collins 339; Brown, Britton, and Bisset 1911. 
