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FIG >09 EI.EUSINE INDICA , Linn.) Gaertn. Fruet. et Sem. l : 8. 1788 (Cmo 

 ...«.w«r/.c..sLinn.Sp.P1.72. 17.^3.) GOOSE or YARD-GRASS.-A coarse uS 

 annual, with erect or spreading stems 1.5-6 dm. (io_20) j^igh and t wo to fi!p 

 digitate spikes 5-7 cm. (2'-3') long. Sheaths lool;, overlapping glbrous or 

 sometimes sparingly villous; leaf-blades 8-30 cm. (3M201ong 2-6 mm (P-s") 

 M.de smooth or scabrous. Spikelets («, 5) 3 to 6 flowered 3-4 mm. (iT-- long- 

 empty glumes acute, the first 1-nerved, the second 7-nerved; flower ng" glumes 

 .) 3 to o nerved; seed (d) finely striate and loo.sely inclosed in a thin periJari 

 \\ aste or cultivated ground. New Jersey to Ohio and Kansas .south to For^da 



?o"oc'rb:;: ''"''''' '^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^-^ -^^-^^-^ couni?i::.r' j^f.: 



This gra«s is considered by some autliorities as being of considerable value 

 iome'v^^d ^-^-^in^and hay, but is more generally regarded La trouble- 



