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Lemma minutely ciliate on the nerves or glabrous, the spikes not feathery. 

 Awn of fertile lemma usually 3 to 6 mm long; spikes mostly 7 to 12 cm 



long, the spikelets not closely crowded 12. C. VERTICILLATA. 



Awn of fertile lemma usually less than 3 mm long; spikes usually less than 



6 cm long, the spikelets crowded. 



Awns about 1 mm long; rudiment prominent, inflated, broadly triangular- 

 truncate, about 1.5 mm wide as folded at summit. 



15. C. CTTCULLATA. 



Awns 2 to 3 mm long; rudiment not inflated, not more than 1 mm wide 



as folded at summit. 

 Rudiment oblong-cuneate, about 0.6 mm wide as folded at summit. 



13. C. SUBDOLICHOSTACHYA. 



Rudiment triangular-truncate, about 1 mm wide as folded at summit. 



14. C. LATISQUAMEA. 



FIGURE 1060. Chloris glauca. Plant, X 1; florets, X 5. (Combs and Baker 1143, Fla.) 

 SECTION 1. EUSTACHYS (Desv.) Reichenb. 



Lemmas firm, brown to blackish, awnless or mucronate only; glumes 

 scabrous, the second mucronate from a notched or truncate 

 summit. Perennials. 



1. Chloris glauca (Chapm.) Wood. (Fig. 1060.) Glaucous; culms 

 erect, compressed, stout, 70 to 150 cm tall; basal sheaths several, 

 broad, compressed, keeled, overlapping and equitant, those of the 

 succeeding 1 or 2 distant nodes similar, 2 to 4 leaves aggregate; 



