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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... Grain pale stramineous, oval, 1.15x1.9 mm.; in section convexo-concave. Hab.--Chichankanab, Gaumer 217o; east shore of Island of Cozumel, Millspaugh Pl. Utowanoe 15cc, and arid plains south of Progreso, 1682. Cenchrus pallidus Fourn. Мех. Pl. E1mrn. Gram. 5o. Spikes exserted, 2.5-7 cm. long, of 1o-5o (sometimes more) crowded involucres, 13x15 mm., including bristles, on pilose pedicels: the 7-8 divisions attenuate, interlocked, pubescent, ciliate below, barbulate at the apex; spines 6-12 mm. long, purplish, antrorsely barbed; basal bristles numerous, slender, minutely barbed. Spikelets 2-3 in each involucre, 1.5x5 mm., ovatelanceolate, acuminate. First glume wanting, second over y the length of the spikelet, purplish brown, ovate, acute, 3-nerved, puberulent; third % the length of the spikelet, purplish brown, acute, 5-nerved, puberulent except near the margins below, subtending a brown, scabrous, 2-nerved palea nearly its own length; fruiting glumes 1.5x5 mm., ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the glume 5-nerved, nerves scabrous above; palea puberulent between the two nerves. Grain pale stramineous, broadly oval, apiculate, 1.5 x 2.1 mm.; in section convexo-concave. Hab.--Merida, July 27, 1865, Schott 4c8 in part, July 2-Aug. 27, 1865, 5c6; crevices in rocks on the patio of Dr. Gaumer, Izamal, Jan. 13, 1895, Millspaugh, Armour Exped. 70/ Izamal, Gaumer 24cj, Chichankanab 2326. Called MooL, "claw-grass," by the Mayas. Cenchrue brevisetus Fourn. ibid. Spikes exserted, 2.5-5 cm. long of 1o-2o involucres, 8x9 mm., including bristles, on pubescent pedicels, the 8-9 divisions spinepointed, erect, long-ciliate to near the apex; spines 2-4 mm., purplish, pubescent, ciliate at the base, retrorsely barbed to...
