126 POACEAE 
. long, the second 1 mm. long: lemmas about 1.3 mm. long, 0.3 mm. wide: 
earyopsis 0.5—0.7 mm. long. — Waste- -places and roadsides, various Sru Fla. 
o Tex. and Me. Nat. of Eu.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., 8. A.) 
pectinacea (Michx.) Nees.  Hesembles E. pilosa: axils of panicle- 
branches pide Or d lower sparingly ps spikelets 1.5 mm. wide: first 
glume 1m dic. ond 1.5 mm. long: lemma 1.7 mm. long, 0.5 m wide, 
the lateral 7 dne pham minent: caryopsis lm mm. long, light brown, "faintly 
alveolate. [E. Purshii Schrad.]—Fields, waste- -places, and moist open grounds, 
arious eee eres Fla. to Tex., Calif., Wash., and Me.—(Mez a 
20. E. oe (L.) Beauv. Resembles E. cilianensis: stem mostly decum- 
bent at base, 10-30 em. tall: panicle mostly less than 10 cm. long, rather com- 
pactly flowered, the branches” and niri divergent: Equo d about 2 mm 
wide. [E. minor Host.]—W infrequent in widely separated localities 
throughout U. S. Nat. of Eu OY T 
21. E. tephrosanthos Schult. Stem spreading or decumbent at base, usually 
lax, as much as 30 cm. long: panicle dx ai than 10 cm. long, the branches 
ascending or spre eine the lower a y less than 4 em. long.—Waste-places, 
Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tex.—(W. I. C. A.) 
22. E. bus sg Stem mostly erect, 30-50 em. tall: panicle erect, open, 
10-30 . long, the branches, bran chlets, and pedicels ascending, flexuous, 
R in the axils, the pedicels mostly 2-3 times as long as the spikelets.— 
T moist ground, Sanibel Island, Fla.; various provinces, W Tex. to S Calif. 
(Mez., C. A., S. A.) 
86. MELICA L. Rather tall perennials, with closed sheaths, flat blades, 
narrow or sometimes open, usually simple panicles. Spikelets 2- to several- 
flowered, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets, 
prolonged beyond the perfect florets and bearing at the apex 2 or 3 gradually 
smaller empty lemmas, convolute together or the upper enclosed in the lower: 
lumes somewhat unequa al, thin, often 
mma 
membranaceous or rat n rm, see ae. 
d sometimes conspicuously so, awn- 
in —Sixty species, in the cooler 
a "i tod hemispheres.—M ELIC-GRASSES. 
HONEY-GRASSES. 
mutica Walt. Stem as much as 1 m. 
B SE RUE ies blades 2-10 mm. 
wide: aes 2 . lon 
Ra oc ng, few-flowered: 
spikele Arx erm . lon PAS odding.—Dry woods, river-banks, and pond-borders, 
zie NICE aed Coastal Plain, " Fla. to Tex., Ia. and Md. 
87. DIARINA Raf. Slender perennials with rootstocks, broadly linear, 
flat blades, long-tapering below, and narrow, few-flowered panicles. Spikelets 
few-flowered, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the 
