Field notebook, 1940-1943
Page 92
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"HK DONN 14:31, t. 1344, 1881. Centre Parigny. sur les angles, .... feuilles longues, très-étroites, glabres, à peine munies en partie de quelques cils très-fins et rares. "Les fleurs ... dont les bractées ... sont garnies de cils à leurs bords." p. 4. Scleria oligantha Mx. "glabra .... fleis acutissimis, asperis." foliis ... rudant à leurs bords que sur leur carène. WILD p. 318. S. pauciflora. "culmo ... scabro .... foliis margine scabris, fasciculis paniculatis binis terminalibus, spicis remotissimis acillari, neutris...cuntiusculis." 1805. [S. lirtella WILD.] An specimen of Scleria Cantriniæve WILD., Torrey Ann. NY. Ac. iii. p. 239 says "Michaux does not notice the fruit, and I did not particularly examine his specimens." Legeria Alexandra - apparently the common grass in Torre Pond Oct. 1 (Saturday), cw = G. colriceps Sorgholium Torre Pond. cw 5 = 2.4 mm achews colriceps 5 = 2.8 mm indica 5 = 2.1 mm Those of G. indicum are pale yellow-brown and prominently striped. Those of Torr Ponds and Colriceps are identical in character - a Lepidostyum frag in colour with similar clavicles-denticulate pubescences, achews of G. uliginosum are properly smooth, deep yellow and almost translucent. Achew characters could be a good approach to Species. Unquestionably the Torr Pond material is G. calvireeps agreeing in every respect with the Virginia material distributed by WILD, except in somewhat coarser size and more spreading leaves, although individual plants nearly identical can be picked out.