. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 6 LIST OF SPECIES. Euchleena mexicana Schrad. Ind. Sein. Ilort. (roett. (1832); Linnsea, 8: 25 (1833). Sierra INIadre ^lountaiiis, altitude 1,600 ni., State of Durango, 3513 J. N. Rose, Augui^t 15,1897; State of Durango, 743 E. Palmer, September, 1896. A plant A-ery much resembling corn, found along water ditches at Navocyana Ranch, very valuable for forage, passing under the common name of "; Tripsacum fasciculatum Trin. in Steud. Nom. ed. 2, 2: 712 (1841). Durango, State of Durango, 537 E. Palmer, Augu
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 6 LIST OF SPECIES. Euchleena mexicana Schrad. Ind. Sein. Ilort. (roett. (1832); Linnsea, 8: 25 (1833). Sierra INIadre ^lountaiiis, altitude 1,600 ni., State of Durango, 3513 J. N. Rose, Augui^t 15,1897; State of Durango, 743 E. Palmer, September, 1896. A plant A-ery much resembling corn, found along water ditches at Navocyana Ranch, very valuable for forage, passing under the common name of "; Tripsacum fasciculatum Trin. in Steud. Nom. ed. 2, 2: 712 (1841). Durango, State of Durango, 537 E. Palmer, August, 1896; on the road near Ilueju- quilla, State of Jalisco, 3570 J. N. Rose, August 25,1897. TRIPSACUM PILOSITM Scribn. & Merrill, sp. nov. (Fig. 1.) A stout, erect perennial about 15 dm. high, with broad, lance- olate, pubescent leaves. Culms about 1 cm. in di- ameter at the base, smooth below, pilose with rather short white hairs below the panicle; nodes smooth; sheaths longer than the internodes, subcompressed above, scabrous, the lower ones strongly tuberculate- hispid; ligule very short, fruncate; leaf blades 4 to 6 dm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, acuminate, gradually ta- pering to the narrow base, strongly strigose - pubes- cent on both sides or some- times somewhat pilo.'^e be- neath, very strongly ser- rulate-scabrous on the mar- gins. Inflorescence termi- nal and axillary, fascicu- late; branches of the termi- nal inflorescence about 2 dm. long, erect; the lower pistillate spikelets few, the upper staminate f)nes num- erous, about 8 mm. long, green (ir purple, the outer glumes faintly 7 to 11 nerved, acute or somew hat obtuse, scabrous on the keel and margins near the apex. A very distinct species, at once recognized by its broad and rather soft pubescent leaves and hispid sheaths. Collected on the road ))etween Colotlan and Bolanos, State of Jalisco, 2841 J. N. Rose, Sejjtemlter 7, 1897. *Isch8emuin latifolium Kuntl\, Rev. Gram. 1: 168 (1835). Under the spray of the C
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