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5. Eragrostis llost. 
Annuals with open panicles of rather large spikelets. Spikelets 
several to many flowered, the rachilla contimaous; ee lemmas deciduous ,the 
paleas persistent; glumes acute, nearly equal, the first lenerved, the second 
1-3-nerved; lemmas acute, or somewhat obtuse, J-nerved, the nerves prominent. 
1. EB. cilianensis (All.) Link. Stinkgrass. Culms erect or usually 
gzeniculate-spreading, as much as 70 cm. tall; sheaths smooth with a tuft of 
hairs at the math, glandular; blades flat, smooth, mostly 10-15 cm. long; 
panicles open, 5-10 cm. long, the branches and branchlets stiffly spreading, 
more or less glandular; spikelets usually many-flowered on short stout pedicels, 
plumbeous, as much as lo mn. long; glumes 1.52 mm. long; lemmas broad, obtusish, 
2mme long, the keels with prominent glandular spots. 
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A weed in waste places; introduced from Europe. 
>Moscow, Henderson 4650. 
6. Dactylis L. Orchard Grasse 
Stout perennials with flat blades and spikelets crowded toward the ends. 
of the panicle branches. Spikelets few-flowered, compressed, disarticulating 
above the glumes and between the florets, the florets crowded, successively 
smaller,making the summits about equal; glumes unequal, keeled, acute or acumin- 
ate, scabrous or hispid on the keel, the first l-nerved, the second 3-nerved; 
lemmas acute or acuminate, awn-pointed, scabrous, S-nerved, stiffly ciliate on 
the keels. 
1. De glomerata L. @rcvherd—reses™——> Culms stout, tufted, as much as 140 
cme tall; sheaths scabrous; blades flat, scabrous or nearly smooth, as much as 
35 ome long and 7 mme wide; panicles open, contracted after flowering, the 
few branches stout, stiffly spreading, naked below; spikelets nearly sessile, 
glomerate at the ends of the branches. 
Y4elds and waste places; introduced irom wuropes Coeur dtAlenes St. Josephs 
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