ABSTRACT
Robert Brown described Sporobolus, based on grasses from India. Much earlier, John Clayton had sent Linnaeus grasses from Virginia, and among them was one that he called Agrostis virginicus. Lamarck made the same choice of genus in 1791 when he named Agrostis pyramidatus. Both were moved to Sporobolus much later, and other species added to them brought the total to 160, with different kinds growing in Africa, the Americas, and Asia (Mabberley 1997).
