118 Misc. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Sandy sea beaches and salt marshes, southeastern United States and 
the West Indies. 
Brermupa: Brown and Britton 313; Collins 162. 
Bauamas: Eleuthera, Geogr. Soc. Baltimore 415. 
Cusa: Morillo, Ekman 17428. 
Jamarca: Black River, Hitchcock 9638. 
Haiti: Aux Cayes, Ekman H 746. 
Dominican Repustic: Peninsula de Barahona, Hkman H 7060. 
Perrero, Hkman H 13169. 
| Purrro Rico: Arecibo, 
, Chase 6562. Santurce, Chase 
1 6349. Aguada, Chase 6603. 
i, Guanajibo, Britton, Cowell, and 
Brown 4357. Vieques Island, 
Chase 6699. 
ViRGIN ISLANDs: Croix, 
Borgesen in 1906. Buek Island. 
Borgesen in 1906. 
Lerwarp Istanps: Antigua, 
Box 102. Guadeloupe, Duss 
3162 
2. Spartina brasiliensis Raddi, 
Agrost. Bras. 21. 1823. 
Brazil. 
Culms erect from extensively 
creeping rhizomes, 50 to 100 
em tall; blades erect, 3 to 5mm 
wide; spikes few, appressed, 4 
to 8 cm long; spikelets about 1 
em long, slightly overlapping, 
Ae te OA a eee 
ance 
ee the second glume glabrous or 
FA nearly so on the keel. 
4 Tidal flats, Trinidad to Brazil. 
Trinipap: HKrin Beach, grow- 
ing insalt water, Broadway 9287. 
SPARTINA CYNOSUROIDES (L.) 
Roth, Catal. Bot. 3: 10. 1806. 
In the United States National 
Herbarium there is a specimen 
said to come trom the Bahama 
Islands. The species occurs 
FIGURE 75.—Spartina patens. Panicle, X 1; from Massachusetts to Florida 
poe eure esto and Louisiana but is not other- 
wise known from the Bahamas. 
52. GYMNOPOGON Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 41. pl. 9. f.3. 1812 
Spikelets, 1- or rarely 2- or 3-flowered, nearly sessile, appressed 
and usually remote in two rows along one side of a slender continuous 
rachis, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and prolonged 
behind the 1 or more fertile florets as a slender stipe, bearing a rudi- 
ment of a floret, this sometimes with 1 or 2 slender awns; glumes 
narrow, acuminate, l-nerved, usually longer than the floret; lemmas 
