GRASSES OF IOWA. 



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1. MISCANTHUS. 



Miscanthus. Anders. Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stock. 12: 165. 1855. Ben- 

 tham & Hooker. Gen. PI. 3: 1125 Hackel in Engler & Prantl Nat. Pflanz. 

 Fam. II. 2:23. Eulalia Trin. in part, Munro. Bentham Fl. Hongk. 420 Ivunth. 

 Eulalia Kunth. End. Gen. PI. 107. Kunth. Gram. 160. pi. Q3- Agros. 479. 



Fia. 16. Miscanthus Japonicus Anders. Eulalia. —a, A spikelet ; b, dorsal view of 

 the first plume; c, similar view of the second glume. (Div. of Agros. U. S. Dept. of Agrl. ) 



DESCRIPTION. 



Eulalia. Spikelets all alike, one-flowered, hermaphrodite, in 

 pairs along the continuous branches of a terminal, spreading panicle, 

 the rachilla articulated below the empty glumes. Glumes 4, the first 

 two membranaceous, nearly equal, empty; the third less firm in texture, 

 empty; the fourth or flowering glume hyaline, more or less bifid at the 

 apex and usually awned between the teeth. Palea hyaline, stamens 3. 



