fly to tops. These lvs. channeled except toward their tips. Sterile aloets (from the abruptly up- turned tips) rootstock with elongated scales at base (or better loose bladeless alicates) then lvs channeled at base but soon becoming sterile & very like culms. (Perhaps these are sterile culms & the origin of the dried remains found at base of fertile culms.) Spikelets with one perfect fl and an imperfect h. below adense (Gr 13033.) 9216 % Gramineae 7-flv almost ripe fr.. A few steps from Juncea stygiosa (v fruitless from "pond" at Salisville Thalietrum "between two ponds") not noticed elsewhere. General aspect giving suggestion Agrostis but fl very different. Rootstock slender creeping. Culms very slender, wiry & decumb- ent at base, then erect. 1-12 in high, glabrous & smooth up to infl (about that point, rough) Infl 1-5 in long. Branches solitary (never 2 from same node), 1/2 in or less long. These primary branches with simple or (esp the lower ones) with compound branchlets. Fl fits in no Tribe as well as in Agrostidea. (1 fl, articu- lated above glumes) & in this Tribe in no genus as well as Sporobolus except that lemma seems 3-nerved (1 nve down center the others 2 near the edges). Glumes unequal, the longer less than 1 mm; both ovate, acute, purplish. Spiklet 1/2 mm. Lemma 1/2 mm., oval, rounded at apex. Palea almost as long ( when fl partly open it seems larger.