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2. Axonopus aureus Beauy., Ess. Agrost. 12. 1812. Type locality 
not indicated. 
Paspalum aureum H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 93. 1815. 
Tall slender branching perennial; culms wiry, compressed; blades 
flat, rather firm, spreading; racemes 4 to 15, subdigitate, slender, 
golden brown, the stiff orange-yellow hairs in tufts below the spike- 
lets as well as along the margins; spikelets about 1.3 mm long, gla-. 
brous or sparingly appressed-hispid. 
Wet sandy savannas, Puerto Rico and northern South America. 
This species is described by Grisebach * under the name Paspalum 
pulchrum. 
Pusrrto Rico: San Juan, Chase 6764 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 560). 
Rio Piedras, Stevenson 3282. 
TrinipaD: Piarco Savanna, Hitchcock 10339. Without locality, 
Crueger. 
3. Axonopus capillaris (Lam.) Chase, Biol. Soc. Wash. Proc. 24: 133. 
1S eS 
Paspalum capillare Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 176. 1791. Tropical 
America. 
Anastrophus capillaris Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17: 161. 1912. 
Annual; culms slender, glabrous, ascending, branching, 10 to 30 em 
tall; blades thin, 2.5 to 5 cm long, about 4 mm wide; racemes 2 or 3, 
delicate, about 2.5 cm long, on long subcapillary peduncles; spikelets. 
glabrous, 1.38 mm long. 
Forming patches on moist open ground, Central America to Trini- 
dad and Brazil. 
Trinipab: Pitch Lake, Mitchcock 10101 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 561). 
4, Axonopus compressus (Swartz) Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 12. 1812. 
CARPET GRASS. 
Milium compressum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 24. 1788. 
Jamaica. 
Paspalum platicaulon Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 5: 34. 1804. 
Puerto Rico. 
Agrostis compressa Poir., in Lam., Enevel. Sup. 1: 259 [not 258]. 
1810. Not A. compressa Willd., 1790. 
Paspalum compressum Raspail, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 5: 301. 1825. 
Paspalum laticulmum Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 245. 1825. West 
Indies. 
Digitaria platicaulis Desv., Opusc. 62. 1831. 
Digitaria domingensis Desv.; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1: 49. 1833, as. 
synonym of Paspalum platycaule Poir. 
Paspalum filostachyum A. Rich.; Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 20. 
1854. Antilles. 
Anastrophus compressus Schlecht.; Doell, in Mart., Fl. Bras. 2°: 102. 
1877, as synonym of Paspalum platicaulon. 
Anastrophus platycaulis Schlecht; Jacks., Ind. Kew. 1: 118. 1893. 
Paspalum raunkiaerii Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 15: 60. 1917. 
St. Jan. 
Nearly glabrous perennial, under favorable conditions producing’ 
long leafy stolons with short broad obtuse blades; flowerig culms. 
55 F], Brit. W. Ind. 543, 1864. 
