Hairy Seed Crown Grass

Paspalum geminum Nash, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1:434. 1900
Paspalum remotum glabrum Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 13 : 166. 1886.
Paspalum pubiflorum glabrum Vasey; Scribn. Bull. Tenn. Exp. Sta. 7: 32. 1894.
Paspalum laeviglume Scribn.; Nash, in Small, Fl. SBU. S. 75. 1903.
A stout glabrous tufted perennial, the stems later usually rooting at the lower nodes, with flat or folded leaf-blades and glabrous spikelets. Stems 5-15 dm. long; leaf-sheaths more or less hirsute on the margins, otherwise glabrous; blades 1-4 dm. long, 8-20 mm. wide, linear, glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes sparingly ciliate, flat or folded ; racemes 3-8, spreading or ascending, the lower ones 4-10 cm. long; spikelets in pairs, 2.7-3 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. broad, oval to broadly obovate, glabrous, the first scale wanting, the second 3-5-nerved, the third 5-7-nerved, the fruiting scale yellowishwhite.
Type locality : Eustis, I,ake County, Florida.
Distribution : Maryland to Oklahoma, and south to Florida and Texas.

Paspalum pubiflorum Rupr.; (Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Brux. 9^ 237, hyponym. 1842) Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 11. 1881.
Paspalum. pubiflorum, viride Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 11. 1881. Paspalum, Hallii Vasey & Scribn. Bull. Torrey Club 13 : 165, as synonym. 1886. Paspalum. pubiflorum. glaucum Scribn.; Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3 : 19. 1892. Paspalumpaucispicatum Vasey, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 281. 1893.
A stout glabrous perennial, usually rooting at the lower nodes, with flat leaf-blades and pubescent spikelets. Stems 4-10 dm. long; leaf-sheaths more or less hirsute on the margin, the exterior basal ones hirsute all over; blades 3 dm. long or less and 1-1.5 cm. wide, glabrous on both sturfaces; racemes 2-4, usually ascending, the lower ones 5-10 cm. long; spikelets in pairs, 2.5-3 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad, broadly obovate, the first scale wanting, the second and third scales 3-nerved, the second scale strongly hirsute, the third glabrous, the fruiting scale yellowishwhite.
Type locality : Tehuacan de las Granadas, Puebla. Distribution : I^ouisiana to Costa Rica.