118 POACEAE 
emmas firm, broad, keeled, acuminate or short-awned, 3-nerved, the lateral 
nerves ie the upper floret panes palea about as long as the lemma; 
seed subglobose, ridged or wrinkled, enclosed 
in a thin, early disappearing SRM 
Three species, natives of Eurasia. 
1. D. aegyptium (L.) Richt. Glabrous an- 
spreading or prostrate, often 
e lo 
rooting at the nodes: spikes 1.5-5 n 
umes scabrous on the keel, the second 
emmas cu 
ith a short awn: 
aegyptiacum Ms. Eleusine aegyptiaca 
Pers.] — (EGYPTIAN -G CRO 
GRASS.)—Waste- places, roadsides, and d cu 
Fla. t 
d various p nee o ATZ., 
Il., and Me. Nat of Eu —(W. I; Mez., 
C. a ) 
LEPTOCHLOA Beauv. niei or perennials with flat blades and 
numerous racemes, racemose along a axis forming a panicle. Spike- 
lets 2- to sip d gate or Pius a approximate or somewhat 
distant along one side of a slender rachis; glumes unequal or nearly equal, 
usually shorter ne the e lues awnless or mueronate, l-nerved: lemm 
obtuse or acute, sometimes 2-toothed and mucronate or short-awned from be- 
tween the teeth, 3-nerved, the nerves sometimes pubescent. [ Diplachne 
Beauv.]—Twenty species, in the warmer parts of both hemispheres.— 
FEATHER-GRASSES. SALT-GRASSES. 
MADE perennial. 
mmas broad, notched at apex, the lateral bad ool 1. L. dubia. 
Ioue acute or awned, the lateral nerves pubesc 
Lemmas ies ue ‘only lowest with short Sene plants 
smooth, glau 2. L. virgata. 
Lemmas 2 nod. ?the awn as long as or longer than the 
ed : leaf- sheaths and blades sparsely pilose, not glau- 
3. L. domingensis. 
Plant an ual. 
Sheaths P spikelets moe 4. L. filiformis. 
Sheaths smooth or scabrous, not pilose 
DEAT awn 5. L. fascicularis. 
Lemmas awnless or mucronate only. 6. L. floribunda. 
1. L. ay di B. K.) Nees. Stem erect, 30-100 cm. tall: leaf-blades as 
ch as . wide: racemes several, ascending, 5—15 cm. long, seattered: 
spikel 5-102 mm. long, 5-8-flowered, rarely j E 
y 2-flo d: lemmas broad, Aa or JT EI 
ginate, sometimes mucronate between A uM 
the lob [D. dubia Benth. ]— (SPRANGLE. ) S/N 
—Plains, hills, and rocky woo a various UN 
provinces, Fla.; Tex. to Ariz.—(Mez., S. A.) N cm 
2. L. virgata (L.) Beauv. Stem wiry, „=al 
erect, slender, xod em. tall: leaf- Papa 
m 
: racemes 10-15 l | 
ae ascending, “ax ` gpikelet m. p 
ong: lemmas 2-2.5 mm. long.—Sandy soil, — E 
a ea, and dir Coastal Plain, i e 
S Fla. and S Tex—(W. I. Mex, C. A. | Æ 
S. A.) | 
