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Fields and open ground, Virginia to California, south to South 
America. A common weed in fields throughout the West Indies, 
except the Bahamas. Leptochloa mucronata var. multiflora Eggers * 
is listed, without description, from St. Croix. 
2. Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) A. Gray, Man. 588. 1848. 
Festuca fascicularis Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 189. 1791. South 
America. 
Festuca polystachya Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 66. 1803. Illinois. 
Festuca thouwns Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 311. 1854. Santo 
Domingo. 
Somewhat succulent; culms erect to spreading or prostrate, freely 
branching, 30 to 100 cm tall; blades flat to loosely involute; panicles 
more or less included, mostly 10 to 20 cm long, often smaller, the 
racemes several to numerous, as much as 10 cm long, usually ascend- 
ing or appressed, or at maturity spreading; spikelets usually overlap- 
ping, 7 to 12 mm long, 6- to 12- 
flowered; lemmas 4 to 5 mm long, 
the lateral nerves pubescent below, 
acuminate, the awn from short to 
as long as the body (fig. 61). 
Ditches and moist ground, 
United States, Mexico, and the 
West Indies. 
BaHamMas: Great Exuma, Britton 
and Millspaugh 3108. New Provi- 
dence, Britton and Brace 504. 
Cusa: Habana, Léon 753, 864, 
1509, 2020. Batabandé, Hitchcock 
251; Ekman 889. Romelie, Eggers 
4834. ee Bay, Britton and 
Re Cowell 9984. entral Orosco, 
Ti teae siege Cree xc10 (Hitchcock 7876).  Hkeman 10570. Baragua, Hitch- 
cock 23337. Guantdnamo, Léon 
3911. Without locality, Wright 3812, 3822. 
JAMAICA: Black River, Hitchcock 9643. Port Henderson, Ridley 
132. Savanna-la-Mar, Hitchcock 9863. St. Anns Bay, Britton 2519. 
Ferry Pen, Harris 12498. 
Hartt: Etang, Leonard 3520. Cape Haitien, Hkman H 2750. 
Port-au-Prince, Ekman H 2105; Buch 1801, 1869. Miragoane, 
Ekman H 7257. Gourjon, Ekman H 6453. 
VirGIN IsuANnps: St. Croix, Thompson 407; Ricksecker 306. 
LEEWARD IsuaNnps: Antigua, Bor 8, 33, 34, 47. 
3. Leptochloa uninervia (Presl) Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. U. S. 
Natl. Herb. 18: 383. 1917. 
Megastachya uninervia Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 283. 1830. Mexico. 
Leptochloa wmbricata 'Thurb., in S. Wats., Bot. Calif. 2: 293. 1880. 
California. 
Perennial, resembling L. fascicularis, rather sparingly branching, 
usually strictly erect, the panicle more oblong in outline, with shorter, 
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