. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN 309, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. fact that the Mexican name for the roots is "Raiz de zacaton"; that is7 roots of grass, in literal translation. Zacaton 1 is the name most commonly applied to the species in Mexico. The French name for the root-brush mate- rial is "chiendent," while "Mexican whisk" is still an- other name applied to it. The first known collection of Epi - cam pes macroura was made by Hum- boldt and Bonpland in the mountains of Toluca, in the State of Mexico, a
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BULLETIN 309, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. fact that the Mexican name for the roots is "Raiz de zacaton"; that is7 roots of grass, in literal translation. Zacaton 1 is the name most commonly applied to the species in Mexico. The French name for the root-brush mate- rial is "chiendent," while "Mexican whisk" is still an- other name applied to it. The first known collection of Epi - cam pes macroura was made by Hum- boldt and Bonpland in the mountains of Toluca, in the State of Mexico, at an altitude of 10,500 feet, sometime prior to 1815. In the working up of this collection the speci- mens were assigned to the genus Crypsis Ait. under the spe- cific names ma- croura, phleoides, and stricta. About 1829, when Kunth published that por- tion of his'' Revision des Graminees"2 containing the Agro- stidese, he evidently had changed his mind as to the as- signment of these specimens to Crypsis and reassigned them to Linnseus's genus Cinna. Many years later, about 1886, Eugene Fournier,3 in working up the collections of Mexican plants deposited in the herbarium of the Museum of Paris, established a new genus,. Fig. 1.—Zacaton (Epicampes macroura), whole plant, one-sisth natural size, a, Three spikelets, 4 times natural size; 6, empty glumes, 4 times natural size; c, flowering glume, dorsal view, 4 times natural size; d, palet, dorsal view, 4 times natural size. 1 Zacaton as a common name is applied also to Muhlenbergia distichophylla (Presl) Kunth and Sporobolus wrigMii Munro, 2 Kunth, K. S. Revision des Graminees. 3 v. Paris, 1829. 3 Fournier, Eugene. Mexicanas Plantas . . pars. 2, p. 90. Parisiis, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
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