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Fig. 99. MUHX.ENBERGIA DIFFUSA Schreb. Beschr. Gras. 2 : 143, pi. 51. 

 1810. NIMBLE WILL.— A low, slender perennial, with ascending, much- 

 branched wiry culms 3-8 dm. (lo-2i°) long, flat leaf-blades and narrow, rather 

 densely flowered, slender panicles 5-18 cm. (2'-7') long. Spikelets {b) 2 mm. 

 (1") long; empty glumes (shown at a) very minute, the lower nearly obsolete, 

 the upper truncate; awn once or twice longer than the flowering glume (c).— 

 In shaded thickets, borders of woods, waste ground about dwellings, etc., 

 Maine and Ontario to Minnesota, Kansas, Texas, and Florida. (Mexico(?);) 

 August to January (in Louisiana). 



A common and well-known grass, with slender, diffusely branching, and 

 tough, wiry stems. It is of comparatively little agricultural value. 



