. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 180 BULLETIN 112, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Type species: Schedonnardus texanus Steud. Schedonnardus Steud., Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 146. 1854. A single species de- scribed, /S. texanus, based on Drummond's no. 360 from Texas. This is S. pammilatiis (Nutt.) Trel. {Lep- turus paniculaUcs Nutt.). Spirochloe L u n e 11, Amer. Midi. Nat. 4: 220. 1915. Pro- posed for " Schedonnardus Steud . . not thought per- missible, being built on ; Schedonnardus panicu- latus (fig. 107), the only- species of the genus,
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 180 BULLETIN 112, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Type species: Schedonnardus texanus Steud. Schedonnardus Steud., Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 146. 1854. A single species de- scribed, /S. texanus, based on Drummond's no. 360 from Texas. This is S. pammilatiis (Nutt.) Trel. {Lep- turus paniculaUcs Nutt.). Spirochloe L u n e 11, Amer. Midi. Nat. 4: 220. 1915. Pro- posed for " Schedonnardus Steud . . not thought per- missible, being built on ; Schedonnardus panicu- latus (fig. 107), the only- species of the genus, is found on prairies and plains from Montana and Illinois to Texas. The axis of the inflorescence elon- gates after flowering, be- coming 1 to 2 feet long, curved in a loose spiral. The whole breaks away at maturity and rolls before the wind as a tumbleweed. The species is a forage grass, but the plants are low and in the main form only an inconsiderable pro- portion of the total forage. 89. Beckmannia Host. Spikelets 1-flowered, rarely 2-flowered, laterally compressed, subcircular, nearly sessile and closel}^ imbricate, in two rows along one side of a slender continuous rachis, disartic- ulating below- the. 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. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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