Holcus laxus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1048. 1753.

"Habitat in Virginia, Canada." RCN: 7571.

Lectotype (Hitchcock in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 126. 1908): Clayton 589, Herb. Linn. No. 1212.11 (LINN; iso- BM) .

Current name: Chasmanthium laxum (L.) H.O. Yates subsp. laxum ( Poaceae).

Note: Yates (in S. W Naturalist 11: 442, f. 6. 1966) reproduced a photograph of the type.