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Stipaceae
Eriocoma cuspidata Nutt. Gen. 1. p. 40.
Stipa membranacea, Burch., H. 2. p. 728; Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am.
2, p. 237.
S. hydropoides B.S.
Milium cuspidatum Spreng.
Trachina (Eriocoma) lunatus Trin. Cat. Petrop. 1834. p. 16; Trin
& Rupr. Stip. p. 19; Steud. Syn. H. Glum. 1. p. 122.
Fuderia [crossed out] Rhynchelytroides Steud. Typ. C.C. p. 429.
Valley of the Rio Grande Beyond, Wright (1796) & Parry:
(Hendl. Nov. Rep. Vol. No 979).
In all the specimens the panicle is less diffuse
and the awns shorter than in those collected by
Douglas in Oregon & Drummond in the Saskatchewan.
The margin of the sheaths are moreover more
or less silky ciliate.
{ If the twisted awn be the only character which
separates Stipa & drygopsis, then certainly the diffuse
panicle, pointed glumes, remarkable alter of the
palea & other characters make this sufficiently
distinct from drygopsis. }
Stipa Resciana Trin & Rupr. Stip. p. 27; (1842) Memoir in
H. Hartweg p.m. Jon. in Wappi's Rep. p.
S. ciliatricha Trin & Rupr C.C. p. 54, (file nums)
S. Setigera Breh., Rel. Haecke. p. 226; Trin & Rupr C.C.p. 28
1 S. ciliata Schelle in Savinen B2. p. 342; Stud. Syg. Glum. Supp. 12.
S. arenacea, Hortz & Arn. Bot. Buch. - p. 403.
{ If Hartweg's plant be really S. Resciana Trin. Then the
synonymy is correct. S. ciliatricha Trin & Rupr. is founded
upon a specimen from Beker (in all probability no 5 of
Drummond) - S. ciliata Schelle. is evidently described
from a young state = Bindheims specimens. Other specimens
show the same ciliate frus. - But Brehl's, S. Setigera
is the oldest name & if this view be correct should
be adopted. If the whole be not S. hicolor Vall. }