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MUHLENBERGIA RAMOSISSIMA.—Culms numerous from one 
root, rather slender, 2 to 3 feet long, much branched, the branch- 
es long; leaves 2 to 3 inches long, narrowly linear, acuminate, 
smooth; ligule membranaceous, short, lacerated; sheaths striate, 
smooth, shorter than the internodes; panicle narrow, nod- 
ding, 4 to 6 inches long, lax, the base included in the upper 
sheath; branches unequal, erect, capillary, 1 to 3 inches long, 
flowering mostly to the base, numerously flowered; spikelets 
I to 1% lines long without the awn; empty glumes minute, } 
to 3 as long as the flowering glume, obtuse, the upper one the 
larger; flowering glume 1 line long, acuminate, sparsely hairy 
below, three-nerved, the lateral nerves extended into short 
teeth, the midnerve into a fine capillary awn 9 to 10 lines long. 
MUHLENBERGIA SPECIOSA.—Culms stout, erect, 3 to 4 feet 
high, almost wholly covered by the long sheaths, nodes few and 
near the base; radical leaves numerous, very long and narrow, 
tigid, those of the culms similar; sheaths softly pubescent, the 
upper ones very long and overlapping; ligule woolly, keel and 
margin of the leaves scabrous; panicle ample, 1 to 1% feet long, 
3 to 4 inches wide, lax, branches irregularly semi-verticillate and 
very numerous, slender, 2 to 4 inches long, subdivided nearly to 
the base, pedicels mostly longer than the spikelets: spikelets 
about 1 line long; empty glumes slightly longer than the flower, 
covered with long, white hairs, thin, equal, nerveless; flowering 
glume ovate, three-nerved, hairy on the nerves, tipped witha 
fine awn 5 to 9 lines long; palet oblong, sparsely hairy, nearly 
equaling its glume. All the glumes and the palet are of about 
the same texture. A very showy grass. 
MUHLENBERGIA PALMERI.—Culms erect from a strong, 
creeping rootstock, stout, 3 to 4 feet high, leafy; leaves 1 to 2 
feet long, narrow, coarse, becoming involute, with long, setaceous 
points, ligule short, rigid ; panicle long and narrow, 8 to 12 inches 
long, % to 1 inch wide, erect, branches numerous, mostly 
flowering to the base, 14 to Linch long; spikelets 2 lines long; 
empty glumes nearly equal, % shorter than the outer ones, 
mucronate, one-nerved; flowering glume oblong-lanccolate, three- 
nerved, scabrous on the keel, bidentate at the apex, and with an 
awn 2 to 3 lines long; palet as long as its glume, narrow, acute. 
