. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 268 ,. l-nerved; floral glume 3-lo])e{l, ;5—i mm. long, the uwn flfxii- 081', ',1-5 mm. long; i)alc'ii liiicar, obtuse, ulmost us louj,' its its glume. Authors lin- ear, mm. long. 1'hin soil of dry })orphyry on mountains. Mexico (Chihuahua), I'rinyle 819. 2. B. speciosa (Vascy). }fuhlenher(jia sjjeclom Vasey, liull. Torr. Club, 13:231 (18Sn). A robust erect ]
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 268 ,. l-nerved; floral glume 3-lo])e{l, ;5—i mm. long, the uwn flfxii- 081', ',1-5 mm. long; i)alc'ii liiicar, obtuse, ulmost us louj,' its its glume. Authors lin- ear, mm. long. 1'hin soil of dry })orphyry on mountains. Mexico (Chihuahua), I'rinyle 819. 2. B. speciosa (Vascy). }fuhlenher(jia sjjeclom Vasey, liull. Torr. Club, 13:231 (18Sn). A robust erect ])erennial, 00-120 cm. high. Culms, sheaths, and lower side of blades shortly tomentose. Sheaths com- pressed-keeled, longer than the internodes; ligule very short, ciliate; blades scabrous above, involute, GO cm. long more or less. 3—4 mm. wide. Panicle 50-(i() cm. lojig, linear; rays numerous, mostly single, branching freely,8-10 cm. long, llower-bear- ing along the upper three-fourths. Spikclets on pedicels 1-3 mm. long; empty glumes subequal, linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, flexuose, nerveless, about 2 mm. long; floral glume pubescent, oval, 2-toothed, mm. long, awn mm. long; palea linear, obscurely nerved, nearly as long as its glume. In texture the glumes and palea are much alike. Anthers linear, 1 mm. long. Mexico (Chihuahua), Palmer 301 in 1885. 52. (lU). BrACHYELYTRUM Ik^auv. Agrost. 39. /. 9. /'. 2 (1S12). Spikclets l-flowered, narrow, with a slemler rudiment of a second llowcr along a groove on the back of the palea in a simple racemose panicle, raclulhi articulate above the lower glumes. Empty glumes nnequal, minute, persistent; floral glume chartaceous, in- volute, rigid, acuminate, 5-7-nerved, oxtemling into a long straight awn; palea sliorter. delicately 2-nerved, with a groove along the back. Stamens 2. Styles short, distinct. (}rain linear, oblong, inclosed, but not adherent. Rachilla ciliolate. There is one species and that peculiar to North
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