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Arejuda
Bigelow, No 1846.
No 2: Specifurni
Aristida junceura, Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3, (1837)
Fruin & Dupr. Stip. p. 107.
A great number of specimens of this very
Variable species occur in the collections from
different localities & none of them seem to be
Precisely The typical form of Nuttall - though
The extremes of the varieties mentioned below
differ widely in size, in the branching of the panic-
le & length of awns. None seem to be no good
characters to force warrant their separation into
species as one might be disposed to do without
the very abundant materials in our possession.
Berlandier:
D. Farkern, "Bugs contracted almost delicate, glumes
short-lidate" Fruin & Dupr. l.c.
Texas & New Mexico, Bigelow Oct. 22, 1850 & Bravida del
Norte [a somewhat searing form] July 1852. These agree
with the Berlandier specimens, No 1777 cited by Fruin Dupr.
(see #47, 949) Wright 2005, XX & col of 1851-52 (i no
743, 1849) These agree with the specimens
No 1777 of Berlandier's collection, cited by Fruin Dupr.
Chunulus 457, 949, 2379 & 2551. If Berlandier's collections
are the same.
Var. p. Itokeri, "shorter. Verticals of awns more remote,
glumes entire or denticulate at the apex." Fruin & Dupr. l.c.
(Wright, Novs. 2003, 2004, 2006[?] & 20015 //1851-52); Bigelow
on the Limpia & at Camp Bucke, Texas [?].