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Figure 279.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis ciliaris. 



loosely flowered branches have been differentiated as E. ciliaris var. 

 laxa Kuntze. 



8. Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight and Arn. (Fig. 280.) Annual, 

 resembling E. ciliaris; blades as much as 5 mm wide; panicle oblong 



or oblong-lanceolate, 



2 to 4 cm wide, rather 

 open; spikelets 4- to 

 8-flowered, about 2 

 mm long ; glumes 

 less than 1 mm long ; 

 lemmas ovate, ob- 

 tuse, 1 mm long; 

 keels of palea long- 

 cilia te, the hairs 

 about 0.3 mm long. 

 © {E. plumosa 

 Link.) — G a r d e n s 

 and waste places, 

 Georgia and Flor- 

 ida; Texas; tropical 

 America; appar- 

 ently introduced 

 from the Old World. 



9. Eragrostis 

 glomerata (Walt.) 

 L. H. Dewey. (Fig. 

 2810 Annual; culms %^fl 

 erect, 20 to 100 cm 

 tall, branching be- 

 low, the branches 

 erect; blades flat, 3 

 to 8 mm wide, taper- 

 ing to a fine point; 

 panicle narrow, 

 erect, densely flow- 

 ered, somewhat in- ^K 

 terrupted, 5 to 50 i||L 

 cm long, greenish or ;j|||| ,1 

 tawny, the branches Wmp^ 

 ascending or ap- atlMj 

 pressed, floriferous 

 to base, many-flow- 

 ered ; spikelets short- 

 pediceled, mostly 6- 

 to 8-flowered, 2 to 



3 mm long; glumes 

 minute; lemmas 

 very thin, about 1 

 mm long; grain 

 about 0.3 to 0.4 mm 

 long, o (E. con- 



ferta Trin.) — Banks of ponds and streams, and low ground, South 

 Carolina to Florida, Arkansas, and eastern Texas, south through 

 Mexico and West Indies to Uruguay (fig. 282). 



Figure 280.— Eragrostis amabilis. 

 Panicle, X V 2 ; spikelet, X 10. 

 (Meislahn 10, Fla.) 



Figure 282.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis glomerata. 



Figure 281.— Eragrostis glomerata. 

 Panicle, X \i, spikelet and floret, 

 X 10. (Eggert, Ark.) 



