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than half their length, the branchlets also naked below, the lower 
branches in verticils; spikelets somewhat approximate on the branch- 
lets, slender-pediceled; glumes acute, glabrous except the scabrous 
keels, the first about 2.5 to 3 mm long, the second a little shorter; 
lemma obtuse, about 2 mm long, minutely pilose at base, awned or 
awnless, the awn when present attached above the middie, curved or 
bent but not twisted or distinctly geniculate, exserted about 1 mm; 
palea wanting; anthers 0.4 to 0.5 mm. 
Pine woods and open ground, Hispaniola in the mountains, 1,000 
to 2,500 m altitude. 
Harti: Pétionville, Hkman H 1115, H 10088. Croix-des-Bouquets, 
Ekman H 7693. Mérion, Ekman H 3181. Furey, Leonard 4318, 
4593. 
Dominican Repusuic: Constanza, Tuerckheim 3227, 3413, 3558; 
Ekman H 14095. Loma Rosilla, Fuertes 1783. Valle Nuevo, Ekman 
H 13857. Top of Pelona (3,150 m), Ekman H 13648. Los Vailecitos 
del Yaque, Ekman H 13638. San José de Ocoa, Hkman H 11686. 
This form of A. hiemalis approaches the mountain form found in 
the White Mountains of New Hampshire and in other mountains of 
the eastern part of the United States. It differs in being usually 
more lax and spreading. The mountain form * referred to has been 
called Trichodium montanum Torr., Agrostis oreophila 'Trin., A. laxi- 
flora var. montana Tuckerm., and A.torreyi Tuckerm. The spikelets 
are awned or awnless. 
The West Indian specimens are rather diverse among themselves 
but no more so than specimens in the United States. Ekman’s no. 
11686 is 60 cm tall, leafy, rather lax, the blades 3 mm wide, while 
Ekman H 13857 is 10 cm tall, the blades about 0.5 mm wide. Dr. 
Ekman wrote “there is but one species in Santo Domingo of this 
eroup’’, that is, the diverse specimens all belong to one species. The 
following specimens cited above are awned, the others awnless; 
Ekman H 1115, H 3181, H 7698, H 10088; Leonard 4318, 4593; 
Tuerckherm 3227, 3557. 
SOs LOMGROGON Dest, Hy Atlant. 1: 66. 1798 
Spikelets, 1-flowered, the pedicel disarticulating a short distance 
below the glumes, leaving a short-pointed callus attached; glumes 
equal, entire or 2-lobed, awned from the tip or from between the 
lobes, the awn slender, straight; lemma much shorter than the 
glumes, hyaline, usually bearing a slender straight awn shorter than 
the awns of the glumes. Annuals or perennials with flat blades and 
dense bristly panicles. 
Riantsannualspanicle dense andysilky 0 2. 22 ets 1. P. MONSPELIENSIS. 
Plants perennial; panicle lobed or interrupted, not silky_____~- 2. be LULOSUS: 
1. Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf., Fl. Atlant. 1: 67. 1798. 
RABBITFOOT GRASS. 
Alopecurus monspeliensis L., Sp. Pl. 61. 1753. Europe. 
Annual; culms 10 to 30 cm tail; blades flat, 2 to 4 mm wide, the 
sheaths inflated; panicles dense, 2 to 6 cm long, about 1 cm thick, 
silky with numerous awns; spikelets about 1.5 mm long, the awns 
about 5 mm long (fig. 42). 
20 For a further discussion of this form see North American Species of Agrostis, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur- 
Plant Indus. Bull. 68: 48. 1905. 
