Part 3

FOOTNOTES:

Agropyron cristatum and A. desertorum are part of a complex that includes several other species.

Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

A complex.

Bothriochloa intermedia (R. Brown) A. Camus (a complex) of Harlan & Celerier, Okla. Tech. Bul. T-72.

Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng. var. ischaemum of Harlan & Celerier, Okla. Tech. Bul. T-72.

Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

A complex, including B. californicus Nutt. ex Buckl., B. marginatus Nees, B. maritimus (Piper) Hitchc., and B. polyanthus Scribn.

Includes B. richardsoni Link.

In written material in which B. inermis is the only Bromus species discussed, its common name may be shortened to brome.

Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

Spp. with stiff spreading spikes are called windmillgrass.

The name “fingergrass” applied to erect spp.

Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

The name H. nodosum has generally been misapplied to H. brachyantherum in this country.

The name “oniongrass” applied to those spp. with bulblike stem bases.

M. foliosa is a name formerly applied to M. mexicana. M. mexicana was then misapplied to the recently recognized M. frondosa (Poir.) Fernald, which it resembles.

Considered to be a form of M. richardsonis (Trin.) Rydb., see 1951 ed. of Hitchcock’s manual, p. 382.

Listed as P. fluitans (Ell.) Kunth on p. 602 of Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

Listed as P. typhoides, Stapf and Hubbard, page 74 USDA Handbook 170, “Grass varieties in the U.S.,” June, 1965.

Older name, now listed as P. setaceum, p. 729 in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.

Included in Tricholaena in some manuals.

In some areas certain Setaria spp. have been called foxtail, but to avoid confusion, that common name should be reserved to the genus Alopecurus.

These three species are sometimes called foxtail.

Listed as S. glauca (L.) Beauv. in Gray’s Manual, 8th Ed. p. 226, and on p. 235, Vol. I, of the New Britton & Brown, 1952.

Listed as Sorgum Adans. in Gray’s Manual, 8th Ed. p. 234, and on p. 244 in Vol. I of the New Britton & Brown, 1952.

Sorghum almum is not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual. Parodi, in his 1943 paper, concluded that it must have originated as a hybrid between S. halepense and some other sorghum.