142 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Open ground and pastures, southern Mexico; Cuba, probably 
introduced; Trinidad, introduced. 
Cusa: Vicinity of Habana, Ekman 36, 13251; Hitchcock 268, 23243; 
Curtiss 571; Léon 274, 288. 
Trinipap: Port-of-Spain, introduced in lawns and parks, Bain 
13082. 
TRIBE 8 PHALARIDEAE 
58. ANTHOXANTHUM L., Sp. Pl. 28. 1753 
Spikelets with 1 terminal perfect floret and 2 sterile lemmas, the 
rachilla disarticulating above the glumes, the sterile lemmas falling 
attached to the fertile floret; glumes unequal, acute or mucronate; 
sterile lemmas shorter than the glumes, empty, awned from the back; 
fertile lemma shorter than the sterile ones, awnless; palea 1-nerved, 
rounded on the back, enclosed in the lemma. Sweet-smelling annuals 
or perennials with flat blades and narrow panicles. 
1. Anthoxanthum odoratum L., Sp. Pl. 28. 1753. Europe. 
SWEET VERNALGRASS. 
Perennial, culms erect, 30 to 60 cm tall; blades flat, 1 to 6 mm 
wide; panicles spikelike, oblong or lanceolate, greenish yellow or 
bronze, 2 to 7 cm long; spikelets about 6 to 8 mm long (fig. 90). 
Cultivated and escaped in pastures in temperate regions of the 
world; introduced in America. 
JaMAiIca: Cinchona, Harris 9499, 11302, 11453, 11525, 11599, 
11849, 12353, 12455, 12481; Hitchcock 9698. St. Helens Gap, 
Mazon and Killip 607. Morces Gap, Orcutt 5555. Gordon Town, 
Hart 742. 
Haiti: Pays-Pourri, Ekman H 7749. 
59. PHALARIS L., Sp. Pl. 54. 1753 
Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1 terminal perfect floret and 
2 sterile lemmas below, disarticulating above the glumes, arranged in 
usually dense spikelike panicles; glumes equal, boat-shaped, often 
winged on the keel; sterile lemmas reduced to 2 small scales (rarely 
only 1); fertile lemma coriaceous, shorter than the glumes, enclosing 
the faintly 2-nerved palea. Annual or perennial erect grasses, with 
flat blades. 
1. Phalaris canariensis L., Sp. Pl.54. 1753. Europe and the Canary 
Islands. CANARY GRASS. 
Annual; culms erect, 30 to 60 cm tall; blades flat, 3 to 8 mm wide; 
panicles dense, ovoid, 2 to 3 em long; spikelets whitish, 5 to 6 mm 
long, the glumes with a green stripe down the side, the keel with a 
broad wing (fig. 91). 
Waste places; a native of Europe and Africa but now widely dis- 
tributed in temperate regions. 
Bermupba: Brown, Britton, and Bisset 1963. 
Cusa: Habana, Léon and Ekman 4265. 
