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Fig. 244. ERAGBOSTIS SIMPLEX Scribn. sp. nov. (E. Broicnci of Chapm. 

 Fl. So. U. S. ed. 2, 664 and of Bui. 7 : 262, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros., eds. 1 & 2, 

 not of Nees.)— A widely .spreading, branching perennial, with somewhat wiry 

 culms 2-5 dm. (8'-20') long, and narrow, simple, more or less interrupted pani- 

 cles of nearly sessile, 10 to 40 flowered spikelets. Sheaths smooth; ligule a 

 fringe of long hairs; leaf-blades variable, 5-15 cm. (2'-6') long, 2-4 mm. (l"-2") 

 wide, usually pilose with few, long, .scattered hair.'^. Spikelets (a, b) 5-14 mm_ 

 (2i"-7") long, nearly sessile; empty glumes nearly equal, acute, about as long 

 as the flowering glumes which are 2 mm. (1") long, obtu.se, scabrous on the 

 keel. Palea strongly ciliate on the margins.— Dooryards and waste ground, 

 Florida. (6073 Curtiss, 1897; 1099 Combs and Baker, 1898.) July to October. 



