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GRAMINEJE. (GRASS FAMILY.) 
flowered, almost sessile ; flowers lanceolate-ovate, acute; leaves 
short, almost awl-shaped, smoothish. ® (Poa reptans, Michx.)- 
Gravelly river-borders, common northward; extensively creeping: 
flower-branches 2' -5' high. August. 
* Culms low , branched at the base , spreading : panicle pyramidal 
2. E. megastacliya, Link. Branches of the oblong crowd- 
e panic e single or in pairs, mostly naked in the axils, covered with 
the lmear-oblong or ovate-oblong 8-40-flowered lead-colored spike- 
e * s “i* ^ on §)> on short pedicels; flowers ovate, obtuse or mucron- 
ulate ; leaves flat, smooth. ® (Briza Eragrostis, L.) — Var. with the 
spikelets smaller, 6-10-flowered, in a more open panicle, is Poa Era- 
^rostis, L. (E. poaoides, Beauv.). — Sandy waste places, naturalized. 
Aug. — Emits a disagreeable odor. 
3. E* piIo$si 9 Beauv. Branches of the loose and ample pani- 
c e capillary, all but the lower scattered and naked in the axils, com¬ 
pound, spikelets 5 - 12-flowered (3"-5" long, purplish), nearly lin¬ 
ear, flattish, about equalling the pedicels; flowers ovate, acutish; 
leaves flat or involute, bearded with long hairs at the throat. ® (P. 
pi osa, . pectinacea, Michx.) — Sandy soil, common southward. 
Aug. - Culms 5' - 12' long, tufted. 
Culms simple , growing in large tufts , upright: panicle very large 
. — ^ onger than the culm), compound , capillary. 
(ft* lftM Ca P*^** r * s > Nees. Panicle expanding, very compound 
', on &)i delicate ; the axils naked; spikelets oblong , 2-4 -flower- 
(a out 1 long, purplish), on long capillary pedicels ; sheaths and 
base of the flat leaves often hairy. ® (P. capillaris, L.) —Dry sandy 
places, common, especially southward. August. 
1 °\^i* S P. ec *^**l* s * Panicle divergently spreading (l°-2° 
ong), the rigid branches refiexed with age , a bearded tuft in the priori- 
pa axils; spikelets oblong or linear , 7-10- (or 15-) flowered (2"-4" 
&» purplish), the lateral ones often not exceeding their oppressed 
pedicel8 ; flowers ovate, minutely ciliate; culm and long leaves rigid, 
st y smooth j lower sheaths often downy, (j) ? (P. spectabilis, 
/W, P hirsdta, at least in part, of Northern authors, not of Michx) 
Sandy fields, Massachusetts to Penn, and southward, near the 
coast. Aug, Sept. 
33. FESTUCA, L. Fescue-Grass. 
Spikelets 3 — many-flowered, panicled or racemose ; the flowers 
not webby at the base. Glumes unequal, mostly keeled. Pale® 
chartaceous or almost coriaceous, roundish on the back, the lat¬ 
eral nerves vanishing below the entire apex, which is acute, point¬ 
ed, or often bristle-awned ; the upper mostly adhering at maturity 
