The Genera of Grasses of the United States With Special Reference to the Econo
The Genera of Grasses of the United States With Special Reference to the Econo
A S Albert Spear Hitchcock
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Haenk, 1; 294, pi. 42. 1830. Only one species de- scribed. 196 BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The only species found in the United States is Cathestecwn erec- tum Vasey and Hack. (fig. 116), a stoloniferous perennial with the aspect of Bouteloua texcma but more delicate. This species is known in western Texas from a very few collections, but is more common FIG. HG. Cathestecum erectum. Plant, X I ; group of spikelets (reduced spike), central spikelet, and fertile floret, X 5. in... northern Mexico. Cathestecum is placed by Bentham 1 doubt- fully in the tribe Zoysieae, and by Hackel 2 in the tribe Festuceae. Griffiths 3 shows its affinity to Bouteloua and places it in the tribe Chlorideae. 1 Benti-. And Hook. Gen. PI. 3: 1122. 1883. 2 Engl. And Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 2 2 : 65. 1887. 3 Contr. U. S. Nat, Herb. 14: 358. 1912, GENERA OF GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES. 197 97. MUNROA Torr. Spikelets in pairs or threes on a short rachis, the lower one or two larger, 3 or 4 flowered, the upper 2 or 3 flowered, the group (reduced spikes) inclosed in the broad sheaths of short leaves, usually about 3 in a fascicle, forming a cluster or head at the ends of the branches; rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets ; glumes of the lower 1 or 2 spikelets equal, 1-nerved, narrow, acute, a little shorter than the lemmas, those of the upper spikelet unequal, the first much shorter or obsolete; lemmas 3-lierved, those of the lower spikelet coriaceous, acuminate, the points spreading, the midnerve extended into a mucro, those of the upper spikelet mem- branaceous ; palea narrow, 2-nerved, inclosing the oval, dorsally com- pressed caryopsis.
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