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4- to 8-fiowered, mostly 3 to 4 mm long, o —Waste places, Maine 

 to Michigan, south to Pennsylvania and Maryland: ballast, Portland, 

 Oreg. (fig. 302); introduced from Europe. 



Figure 300.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis tephrosanthos. 



Figure 301.— Eragrostis peregrina. Figuke 302.— Distribution ol 

 Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Hotch- Eragrostis peregrina. 



kiss 1708, N.Y.) 



21. Eragrostis orcuttiana Vasey. (Fig. 303.) Annual; culms 

 ascending from a decumbent base, rather stout, 60 to 100 cm tall; 

 blades flat, 2 to 6 mm wide; panicle open, 15 to 30 cm long, the 



Figure 303.— Eragrostis orcuttiana. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Hitchcock 3063, Calif.) 



branches, branchlets, and pedicels slender, spreading, flexuous, 

 finally implicate, the axils glabrous; spikelets linear, 6- to 10-flowered, 

 sometimes a little falcate, 5 to 7 mm long, about 1 mm wide; second 

 glume a little more than 1 mm long; lemmas loosely imbricate, the 



