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APPENDIX G.-BOTANY.
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FIMBRISTYLIS SPADICEA, Vahl, Enum. 2, p. 294; Torr. Cyp., p. 346;
Kunth, Enum. 2, p. 237; Torr. Fl. N. York, 2, p. 360. Headwaters of
the Trinity; May.
CAREX MUHLENBERGIH, Schk. Car. 2, p. 12, f. 178; Schwein. and Torr.
Car., p. 304; Torr. Fl. N. York, 2, p. 374. Headwaters of the Trinity,
and on Cache Creek; May-June.
C. FESTUCACEA, Schk. Car. f. 173; Carey, in Gray's Bot. N. States,
p. 545. C. straminca, var.festucacea, Torr. 1. c. With the preceding.
GRAMINELE.
PHALARIS ANGUSTA, Nees; Trin. Ic. Gram. t. 78; Kunth, Gram. 2,
p. 32. P. occidentalis, Nutt., in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 5, p.
144. On Cache Creek; May 16. This plant is certainly P. angusta
of Trinius, of which I have specimens named by that distinguished
botanist. It appears, however, scarcely to differ from P. microstaclya,
DC.
PASPALUM LAVE, Michx. Fl. 1, p. 44; Trin. Panic. Gen., p. 160;
Torr., Fl. N. York, 2, p. 421. Main Fork of Red River; June.
PANICUM PAUCIFLORUM, Ell. Sk. 1, p. 120; Gray, Bot. N. States, p.
613. Headwaters of the Trinity; May.
P. RETICULATUM, (n. sp.;) culmo geniculato erecto subsimplici; foliis
vaginisque laxe pilosis; panicula oblonga contracta, ramulis racemosis
paucifloris; spiculis obovatis acutiusculis glabris breviter pedicellatis
muticis; glumis valde inaequalibus; flore neutro bivalvi; palea inferiore
(ut in gluma superiora) 7-costulata reticulata, flore hermaphrodito
transverse ruguloso. On the Main Fork of Red River; July. Nos.
2090 and 2091, Wright's Coll. N. Mex. 1851-52, are glabrous and more
robust forms of this species.
P. OBTUSUM, (H. B. K.?) spicis 5-7 racemosim dispositis erectis;
spiculis geminis subimbricatis unilateralibus muticis obovatis obtusis
glabris; glumis aequalibus multinervosis; flore inferiore triandro bipaleaceo;
flore hermaphrodito subtilissime.longitudinaliter striato subnitido.-H.
B. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. 1, p. 98 ? Tributaries of the Washita.
Plant glabrous and glaucous, about 18 inches long. Rachis narrowly
linear, very flexuous; nerves of the glumes green. Near P. obtusum,
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