134 GRASSES OF IOWA. 



The grass matures rapidly and affords early forage, but later 

 becomes woody. In cultivated gardens and fields it is a bad weed. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Iowa. Woodbine, n and 7 (Burgess); Ft. Dodge (Pammel and 

 Sokol, Oleson) ; Boone, 3202 (Pammel) ; Steamboat Rock, 3146 (Miss 

 King) ; Keokuk (P. H. Rolfs) ;Grundy Center, 3208 (Miss Paddock) ; 

 Wilsonville, 3183 (Larsen) ; Lansing, 3010 (Miss King) ; Sioux City 

 (Miss Wakefield) ; Ames (Pammel, Kaufman, Ketterer, Crozier, Sir- 

 rine, Fairfield) ; Belknap, 827 (Rankin) ; Rock Rapids (Shimek) ;. 

 Jewell Junction, De Witt, Carroll, Turin, Logan, Jefferson, Sheldahl 

 and Slater, 251 Clinton (Pammel) ; Myron (Miss King) ; Spirit 

 Lake, 16 (Beard) ; Dixon, 734 (Snyder) ; Mt. Pleasant (Mills) ; Red 

 Oak (Holt) ; Hesper (Ballard) ; 1013, Creston (Bettenga) ; Glen- 

 wood, 998 (Jackson) ; Chariton, 779 (Mallory) ; Parkersburg. 041 

 (Stout); Ames, 115 (Ball); Amana, 697 (Schadt) ; Carroll, 1018 

 (Simon); Boone (Carver); Greenfield (Stewart); Ames, 114 (Pam- 

 mel) ; Jackson County, Rapid Creek, Johnson County, Hamilton to 

 Hancock County (Preston) ; Sioux City (Macbride) ; Iowa City 

 (Hitchcock) ; Steamboat Rock (Miss King) ; Steamboat Rock 

 (Shimek) ; Nevada (Pammel) ; Traer (Provan). 



North America. New Brunswick (Washington, D. C. (Potomac 

 Flats, Ball, 712) ; to North Carolina, Texas, Missouri (St. 

 Louis, Eggert; Jefferson Barracks, Eggert), Indian Territory, Ne- 

 braska, Minnesota, Wisconsin (La Crosse, D. S. Pammel and C. M. 

 King; Bloomingdale, Pammel and C. M. King, 3175), Ohio (Picker- 

 ington, Horr) ; to Ontario. 



3. MUHLENBERGIA GLOMERATA. 



Muhlenbergia glomerata Trin. Unif. 191. 1824. Watson and Coulter. 

 Gray. Man. Bot. 543. 1890. (6th ed.) Scribner. Grasses of Tenn. Bull. 

 qniv.Tenn. Agrl. Exp. Sta. 7: 67. f. 81. 1894. VaseyContr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 3: 68. 



Muhlenbergia racemosa (Michx.) B. S. P. Beal. Grasses of N. A. 2: 



252.1896. Nash in Britton and Brown. 111. PI. 1: 143. /. 322. 1896. 



Scribner. Am. Grasses. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agrl. Div. Agros. 7: 109. 

 /. 103. 1900. (3d ed.) 



Polypogon glomeratus Willd. Enum. 1: 87. 1809. 



Agrostis racemosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 53. 1803. 



Muhlenbergia racemosa B. S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 67. 1888. 



