Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses 



Long-awned 

 Hair-grass 

 Muhlenbersia 

 capillaris 



curiosity for the blossoms 



to appear, there is small 



reward in seeing but short panicles of tiny 



green and lead-coloured flowers. The more 



slender Nimble Will, mentioned before, is 



also found in dooryards, where it hastily 



spreads wherever it has opportunity. 



Long-awned Hair-grass is found only on 

 dry soil and is a delicate and beautiful grass, 

 very distinct in appearance from our other 

 species of Muhlenbergia. The gossamer-like, 

 purple panicles are long and glistening, while 

 the awned, solitary flowers are borne on such 

 widely spreading pedicels that the flowering- 

 heads are frequently a foot across, and in late 

 summer are gauze-like and graceful until the 

 first frost touches them. 



Meadow Muhlenbergia. Mexican Dropseed. Muhlen- 

 bergia mexicdna (L.) Trin. 



Perennial, from creeping rootstocks. 

 Stem i|-3j ft. tall, smooth, wiry, much branched, erect or spreading. 



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