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Fig. 247. ERAGROSTIS FRANKH Steud. Svn. PI. Gram. 273. 1854 SHORT- 

 STALKED MEADOW-GRA.SS.-A low, diffusely branched, glabrous annual 

 1.5-4 dm. (6'-lG') high, with open, many-flowered panicles 5-12 cm. (2MiO long. 

 Sheaths loose, shorter than the internodes; leaf-blades 5-12 cm. (2'-5') long, 2-4 

 mm. (l"-2") wide, smooth beneath, scabrous above. Spikelets (a, 6, c) ovate 

 3 to 5 flowered; 2-3 mm. (l"-li") long; empty glumes acute, the first shorter 

 than the second; flowering glumes acute, the lower 1.5 mm. (f ) long the 

 lateral nerves obscure.-Low, sandy ground in the open, .southern New York to 

 Minnesota, south to Georgia, Louisiana, and Kansas. August to October. 



