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44. Eragrostis refracta (Muhl.) Scribn. (Fig. 336.) Resembling 

 E. elliottii; blades more or less pilose on the upper surface near base; 

 lower panicle branches usually finally reflexed, long-pilose in the 

 axils; spikelets short-pedicelled, appressed and distant along the 



nearly simple panicle branches, the lemmas 

 on the average shorter than in E. elliottii. 

 % — Low sandy soil, Coastal Plain, Del- 

 aware to Florida and eastern Texas (fig. 337). 



45. Eragrostis chariis (Schult.) Hitchc. 

 (Fig. 338, B.) Perennial; culms erect or as- 

 cending at base, 60 to 120 cm tall; panicle 

 open, 7 to 15 cm long, nodding, the branch- 

 es glabrous or with a few hairs in the axils, 

 ascending, solitary, rather distant, naked below, rather closely 

 flowered with ascending or appressed branchlets; spikelets linear, 5 

 to 10 mm long, 8- to 20-flowered; glumes about 1.3 and 1.7 mm long; 



Figure 332.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis spectabitis. 



Figure 333.— Eragrostis elliottii. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Tracy 7384, Fla.) 



lemmas 1.5 to 2 mm long, imbricate; palea persistent only a short 

 time after the fall of the lemma, the naked rachilla persisting. 91 

 — Sandy roadsides, Florida (St. Petersburg) ; introduced from south- 

 eastern Asia. 



46. Eragrostis bahiensis Schrad. (Fig. 338, 

 A) Resembling E. chariis; panicle often 

 more or less condensed; spikelets as much 

 as 30-flowered; lemmas about 2 mm long; 

 palea persistent. 21 —Introduced, 

 Florida (Milton, Pensacola), Alabama 

 (Mobile), and Louisiana (Avery Island); 

 Brazil. 



Eragrostis stenophylla Hochst. Erect smooth annual, 30 to 40 cm 

 tall, with loosely involute blades and rather loose panicle with as- 

 cending branches, the linear spikelets several-flowered, the lemmas 1 .3 



F i]g|u R e 334.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis elliottii. 



