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mm long, q Mississippi (Biloxi), probably escaped from grass 

 garden. India. 



Eragrostis cyperoides (Thunb.) Beauv. Stiff stout stoloniferous 

 perennial with sharp-pointed blades and narrow elongate interrupted 

 panicles, the distant branches with naked thorn like tips; spikelets 

 coriaceous, crowded. <4 Oregon (Linnton), 

 on ballast. South Africa. 



ERAGROSTIS ABYSSINICA (Jacq.) Link. TEFF. 

 Annual; culms branching and spreading, 30 to 100 cm 

 tall; panicle large and open; spikelets 5- to 9-flowered, 

 6 to 8 mm long. O Occasionally cultivated for 

 ornament. Africa, where the seed is used for food. 



ERAGROSTIS TENELLA (L.) Beauv. Tall branching 

 annual; blades long, lax; panicles numerous, pale, 20 

 to 50 cm long, narrow but loose; spikelets minute. O 

 (E. japonica Trin.) Occasionally cultivated for ornament. Asia. 



ERAGROSTIS OBTUSA Munro. Low branching perennial; panicles open, 5 to 10 

 cm long; spikelets gray -olivaceous, broadly ovate, the lemmas almost horizontally 

 spreading. QJ. Occasionally cultivated for ornament. South Africa. 



ERAGROSTIS CHLOROMELAS Steud. Branching perennial, 40 to 65 cm tall with 



FIGURE 337. Distribution of 

 Eragrostis refracta. 



FIGURE 338. A, Eragrostis bahiensis. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Hitchcock 19862, La.) B, E. chariis, 



X 10. (Weatherwax 822, Fla.) 



hard tufted base; blades involute; panicle loose, 8 to 12 cm long; spikelets dark 

 olivaceous. 91 Occasionally cultivated for ornament. South Africa. 



ERAGROSTIS CURVULA (Schrad.) Nees. Tufted perennial, 60 to 120 cm tall; 

 blades elongate, subin volute with long flexuous setaceous tips; panicle 20 to 30 

 cm long, loose; spikelets dark olivaceous. 01 Occasionally cultivated for 

 ornament. South Africa. 



13. CATABROSA Beauv. 



Spikelets mostly 2-flowered, the florets rather distant, the rachilla 

 disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes 

 unequal, shorter than the lower floret, flat, nerveless, irregularly 

 toothed at the broad truncate apex; lemmas broad, prominently 

 3-nerved, the nerves parallel, the broad apex scarious; palea about as 

 long as the lemma, broad, scarious at the apex. Aquatic perennials, 



