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Rocky hills and dry plateaus, Arizona to Colombia; Bahamas, Cuba, 
and Hispaniola. 
Baunamas: Nassau, Curtiss 75 
and Taylor 926. 
Cupa: Pinar del Rio, Wright 3835. 
Vicinity of Habana, Léon 280, 958, 959, 
8518; Wilson 9488; Hitchcock 496, 497. 
Guanabacoa, Léon and Shafer 3443; 
Fitchcock 23238. Santiago de 
| Ekman 8474; Britton and Cowell 12857. 
Haiti: Port-de-Pai, Ekman H 3626. 
DomINICAN Repusuic: Peninsula de 
Barahona, Ekman H 7029. 
2. Aristida adscensionis L., Sp. 
1753. Ascension Island. 
Aristida maritima Steud., Syn. Pl. 
Glum.1: 137. 1854. Guadeloupe. 
Aristida debilis Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. 
Fedde 17: 151. 1921. Based in part 
; Hitchcock in 1890. Inagua, Nash 
Cuba, 
Ele 82: 
on a specimen collected in Jamaica by eae eines 
MacNab. 
(Griffiths 7271). 
Annual, much branched at base; culms 
10 to 80 em tall; panicles narrow, 
erect, 5 to 10 cm long in the smaller 
plants; first glume 5 to 7 mm long, the second 8 to 10 mm long; lemma 
8 to 9 mm long, compressed toward the scarcely beaked summit; 
FIGURE 53.—Aristida adscensionis, 
X 1 (Earle 559). 
awns about equal, 10 to 15 mm long, 
equally divergent, flat and straight 
at base. Extremely variable in ap- 
pearance, ranging from dwarf plants 
with narrow compact panicles to 
larger plants, as much as 70 cm tall, 
with flexuous panicles (fig. 53). 
Open dry ground and waste 
places, throughout the warmer parts 
of America and the Old World. 
Grisebach”> refers this species to 
A. stricta Michx. 
Bauamas: Crooked Island, Brace 
4633. Long Island, Britton and 
Millspaugh 6309. Long Cay, Brace 
4077. Fortune Island, Hitchcock 
in 1890. 
JAMAICA: Kingston, Britton and 
Hollick 1746; Harris 11500, 12452. 
Gordon Town, Harris11513. Flam- 
stead, Harris 11474. Musgrave 
Road, Harris 11480. 
Haiti: Port-au-Prince, Leonard 
3451, 15878, 15881; Buch 2041. 
Jean Rabel, Leonard 12968. Mdle- 
St.-Nicolas, Leonard 13343. Cabaret, Leonard 11852, 11863, 11960. 
St. Michel de l’Atalaye, Leonard 7095. Morne-a-Cabrits, Ekman 
H 960. 
% Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 534, 1864. 
