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FIGURE 279. Distribution of 

 Eragrostis ciliaris. 



loosely flowered branches have been differentiated as E. ciliaris var. 

 laxa Kuntze. 



8. Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight and Arn. (Fig. 280.) Annual, 

 resembling E. ciliaris; blades as much as 5 mm wide; panicle oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, 



2 to 4 cm wide, rather 

 open; spikelets 4- to 

 8-flowered, about 2 

 mm long ; glumes 

 less than 1 mm long ; 

 lemmas ovate, ob- 

 tuse, 1 mm long; 

 keels of palea long- 

 ciliate, the hairs 

 about 0.3 mm long. 

 O (E. plumosa 

 Link.) G a r d e n s 

 and waste places, 

 Georgia and Flor- 

 ida; Texas; tropical 

 America; appar- 

 ently introduced 

 from the Old World. 



9. Eragrostis 

 glomerata (Walt.) 

 L.H.Dewey. (Fig. 

 281.) Annual; culms 

 erect, 20 to 100 cm 

 tall, branching be- 

 low, the branches 

 erect; blades flat, 3 

 to 8 nun wide, taper- 

 ing to a fine point; 

 panicle narrow, 



FIGURE 280. Eragrostis amabilis. erect, densely floW- 



ered, somewhat in- 

 terrupted, 5 to 50 

 cm long, greenish or 

 tawny, the branches 

 ascending or ap- 

 pressed, floriferous 

 to base, many -flow- 

 ered ; spikelets short- 

 pediceled, mostly 6- 

 to 8-flowered, 2 to 



3 mm long; glumes 

 minute; lemmas 

 very thin, about 1 

 mm long; grain 

 about 0.3 to 0.4 mm 

 long, o (E. con- 



ferta Trin.) Banks of ponds and streams, and low ground, South 

 Carolina to Florida, Arkansas, and eastern Texas, south through 

 Mexico and West Indies to Uruguay (fig. 282). 



Panicle, X M; spikelet, X 10. 

 (Meislahn 10, Fla.) 



FIGURE 282. Distribution of 

 Eragrostis glomerata. 



FIGURE 281. Eragrostis glomerata. 

 Panicle, X 1 A; spikelet and floret, 

 X 10. (Eggert, Ark.) 



