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GBAMINEJE* (GRASS FAMILY.) 
er palea long-awned from near its base. (A. stricta, Willd.) — Moist 
meadows and fields, introduced ; also native northward. A valuable 
grass. July. 
8. CilVNA, L. Wood Reed-Grass. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, flattened, crowded in an open flaccid pani¬ 
cle. Glumes lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled, hispid-serrulate 
on the keel; the lower rather smaller. Flower manifestly stalk¬ 
ed in the glumes, smooth and naked ; the paleae much like the 
glumes; the lower longer than the upper, short-awned on the 
back below the pointless apex. Stamen one, opposite the 1-nerv- 
ed upper palea ! Grain linear-oblong, free. — Perennial, rather 
sweet-scented grasses, with simple and upright somewhat reed¬ 
like culms (2°-7° high), bearing a large compound terminal pan¬ 
icle, its branches in fours or fives, linear-lanceolate flat leaves (p- 
h' wide), and conspicuous ligules. (Name unexplained.) 
1. C. aruiMlinacea, L. Panicle spreadings mostly contract¬ 
ed in fruit; lower glume and the upper palea about \ shorter than the 
lower palea , which the upper glume barely equals. — Moist woods 
and shaded swamps. Aug. — Spikelets green, rarely purplish, p long; 
the inconspicuous awn more or less exceeding the tip of the palea. 
2. C. pemlllla, Trin. Branches of the very loose panicle long 
and capillary, drooping ; glumes slightly unequals the lower nearly as 
long as the lower palea; upper palea little shorter. (C. suaveolens, 
Blytt. Muhlenbergia pendula, Bongard .) — Deep damp woods, com¬ 
mon northward: confounded with the last; from which it further dif¬ 
fers in its rough pedicels and spikelets about half the size. 
9. MUHLENBERGIA, Schreber. Drop-seed Grass. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in contracted or rarely open panicles. 
Glumes mostly acute or bristle-pointed, persistent; the lower 
rather smaller or minute. Flower very short-stalked or sessile in 
the glumes; the paleae usually hairy-bearded at the base, herba¬ 
ceous, deciduous with the inclosed grain, often equal; the lower 
3-nerved, mucronate or awned at the apex. Stamens 3. — Chief¬ 
ly perennials, with branched and often diffuse rigid culms from 
creeping rootstocks, and short narrow leaves. (Dedicated to the 
Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg , a distinguished American botanist.) 
§ 1. Muhlenbergia proper.— Panicles contracted or glomeratCs ter¬ 
minal and axillary. 
