Special Reports (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I Botjtelotja, Lag. Spikes numerous in a racemose panicle or one terminal; spikelets densely crowded in two rows on one side of the rhachis, each consisting of one perfect flower, and a stalked pedicel bearing empty glumes and one to three stiff awns; outer glumes unequal, acute, keeled, membra- naceous; flowering glume broader, usually thicker, with three to five lobes, teeth, or awns at the apex; palet narrow, hyaline, entire or two- toothed, enfolded by its glume. 1. B. aristidoides, H. B. K. New Mexico and Arizona. 2. B. Burkei, F. L. S. Texas. 3. B. eriopoda, Torr. New Mexico to Arizona. 4. B. fcena, Torr. ? New Mexico to Arizona. 5. B. hirsuta, Lagas. Illinois to Rocky Mountains and Plains. 6. B. Havardii, Vasey. Texas. 7. B. Humboldtiana, Gris. New Mexico to Arizona. 8. B. oligostachya, Torr. Texas to Arizona. B. oligostachya, var. intermedia. Texas to Arizona. 9. B. polystachya, Benth. Texas to Arizona. B. polystachya, var. major, Vasey Texas to Arizona. 10. B. pusilla, Vasey. New Mexico. 11. B. racemosa, Lag. (B. curtipendula, Gr.). Illinois to Texas and Arizona. 12. B. Texana, S. W. ined. Texas. 13. B. trifida, Thurb. Texas to Arizona. 14. B. Eothrockii, Vasey. Arizona. Jsleusine, Gaert. Spikes two to five or more, digitate at the summit of the culm, sometimes a few scattering ones lower down; spikelets aessile and crowded along one side of the rhachis, two to six or more flowered, the uppermost flowers imperfect or rudimentary; outer glumes membranaceous, shorter than the spikelet; flowering glumes isually obtuse; palet folded, two- keeled. 1. E. Indica, Gaert. Yard-grass, Crab-grass. Extensively naturalized E. Indica, var. brachystachya. On Ballast ground, Philadelphia. 2. E. .2Egyptiaca, Pers. (Dac...