GRASSES OF IOWA. 229 



Greenfield (Stewart) ; Johnson County (Shimek) ; Marshalltown, Car- 

 roll, Turin, Des Moines, Clinton (Pammel) ; Armstrong, Emmet 

 County (Cratty) ; Johnson County (Hitchcock and Macbride). 

 Marshalltown ( Pammel). 



North America. Southern New York to Minnesota,: Kentucky 

 (Harlan County, Kearney, 150), Illinois (Bebb; Palatine, Pammel; Chi- 

 cago, Pammel). Missouri (Rock Springs. Eggert) ; south to Georgia, 

 Louisiana and west to Kansas. 



4. ERAGROSTIS MAJOR. 



Eragros lis major Host. Gram, Austr. 4: 14. pi. 24. 1809. Watson 

 and Coulter. Gray. Man. Bot. 660. 1890. (6th ed.) Scribner. Graces 

 of Tenn. Bull. Univ. Tenn. Agr. Exp. Sta. 7: 97. /. 124. 1894 Bull. U. 

 S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros. 17: 215. f.Sll. 1899. Beal. Grasses of N A. 

 2: 486. 1896. Nash in Britton aDd Brown. 111. Fl 1: 189. /. 433 1896. 



Eraofostis potzoides var megastachya A. Gray. Man. Bot. 631. 1867. 

 (5th ed.) 



DESCRIPTION. 



Candy Grass. A rather showy, much-branched annual, with erect 

 or ascending stems, 6 inches to 2 or 3 feet ( 1^-5 or 14 dm.) high. Sheaths 

 striate, smooth, hairy at the throat; ligule a fringe of short hairs, leaf- 

 blade flat, 3 to 10 inches (6-20 cm.) long, 1 to 3 lines (2-6 mm.) wide, 

 somewhat scabrous on the upper surface. Panicle elliptical or oblong, 

 the branches usually spreading, spikelets ovate to linear, seven to forty- 

 flowered, 2 to 8 lines (4-16 mm.) long, 1^ to 2 lines (3-4 mm.) broad; 

 empty glumes nearly equal, ovate, lanceolate, 1 line (2 mm.) or less 

 long; flowering glumes ovate, obtuse, prominently nerved*, and scabrous 

 on the keel. Palea ciliate on the keels. June to October. See figure 

 160, on page 228. 



Eragrostis major is a weed} - grass in all parts of the state. Intro- 

 duced by the earliest settlers. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Iowa. Granite (Shimek) ; High Bridge (Lumrnis) ; Forest City 

 (Shimek): Ames (Zmunt, C. A. Wilson, Beardslee) ; Fairfield 

 (Bessey) ; Weaver (Hitchcock); Armstrong (Cratty); Greenfield 

 (Stewart) ; Lee County, Des Moines County (Bartsch) ; Cedar Rapids 

 (Miss Hall) ; 20 Granite, Keokuk, Johnson County (Shimek) ; Ham- 

 ilton to Hancock County (Preston) ; Creston (Bettenga) ; 3149. Lan- 

 sing, 3040 Steamboat Rock, 3350 Postville, 3327 Myron (Miss 

 King): Battle Breek, 958 (Preston); Montrose, 705 (H. Osbor.n) ; 



