ee keeled, a 
564 GRAMINEJE. (GRASS FAMILY.) 
appressed ; flowers minute, membranaceous, rather distant on the rachis ; lower 
palea obtuse, 3-nerved. (Poa conferta, Hil.) — River-banks, Florida to South _ 
Carolina. Aug. and Sept. — Panicle whitish. Spikelets 1” - 14" long. 
* * Culms simple, erect, shorter than the large and spreading panicle. 
6. E. tenuis, Gray. “ Panicle virgately elongated (19— 219 long), very 
loose, the spreading branches bearded in some of the lower axils, their remote 
divisions and long diverging pedicels capillary ; spikelets 2 — 6- (sometimes 7 ~ 
12-) flowered, pale or greenish; glumes lanceolate or aw]-shaped, very acute 
(13 - 2" long), membranaceous, as are the oblong-lanceolate acute flowers ; 
lower palea distinctly 3-nerved ; the upper, ciliate-scabrous.” Gray. (Poa te- 
nuis, Æl.) — Greenville, South Carolina, Elliott; North Carolina, Curtis. Aug. 
and Sept. l} ?— Leaves (139 - 2? long) and sheaths smooth or hairy. 
7. E. capillaris, Nees. Panicle widely expanding, the lower axils mostly 
bearded ; spikelets very small (1! — 11" long), 2-4-flowered, mostly purple, on 
long diverging capillary pedicels ; glumes and flowers ovate, acute ; lower palea 
obscurely 3-nerved. (Poa, Z. P. hirsuta, Michx.) — Dry uncultivated fields, 
Florida, and northward. Aug. and Sept.— Leaves and sheaths smooth or 
hairy. Panicle 1°- 2° long. 
8. E. nitida. Panicle (139 - 39 long) reclining, the bristle-like or capil- 
lary branches erect-spreading, naked in the axils; spikelets linear, flat (3 — 4" 
long), 8 — 12-flowered, on erect-spreading pedicels 1! - 9' long ; lower palea acute, 
3-nerved, nearly smooth on the keel ; leaves and sheaths very smooth and shin- 
ing. (Poa nitida, Ell.) — Low grassy places along the coast, West Florida to 
South Carolina. Aug. and Sept. | — Leaves narrowly linear, longer than 
the short (6'-9' high) culm. 
9. E. pectinacea, Gray. Panicle erect, widely spreading, or the rather 
rigid and hairy branches at length reflexed ; spikelets purple, flat, about 8-flow- 
ered, shorter than the erect or slightly spreading pedicels ; lower palea ovate, 
acute, strongly 3-nerved, rough-keeled. (Poa pectinacea, Michz. P. hirsuta, 
Ell., $c., not of Michz.) — Dry sterile soil, Florida, and northward. | Aug. and 
Sept. — Panicle 19-139 long. Leaves and sheaths mostly clothed dim long 
soft hairs. 
Var. refracta. Smooth throughout, or the sheaths of the short and rigid 
leaves bearded at the throat ; panicle (6 — 12' long) with the branches reflexed ; 
spikelets sessile or nearly so, 15 — 20-flowered ; lower palea faintly 3-nerved. 
sere refracta, Ell.) — Damp soil, Florida to North Carolina. — Ms abont 
5 5" long. 
93. DACTYLIS, L. Dicuru S 
| oo unns with simple culms, keeled leaves, and 2. 7-flowered spikelets 
; exded ina -sided glomerate panicle. Glumes and lower palea herbaceous, 
ons on the sagem - cens Stamens: $ 
