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them broadcast, and plow under shallow. An analysis made at the 

 Department of Agriculture, of specimens from Alabama, gave ash 

 9.11, fat 1.57, nitrogen-free extract 52.61, crude fiber 23.29, albumi- 

 noids 13.42. 



Genus GRAPHEPHORUM, Desvaux. 

 Graph-eph'-o-rum . 



From the Greek, graphis, a pencil, and /ero, to bear, from the 

 tufts of hair at the base of the flowers. 



Spikelets from two to five-flowered, in a narrow or loose panicle. 

 Glume nearly as long as the spikelet ; flowering glume slightly 

 longer and larger than the palea. A tuft of fine hairs arises from 

 the base of each flower. 



25. GRAPHEPHORUM MELICOIDES, Beauvois. 

 Graph-eph'-o-rum mel-i-cot-des. 



Stem from one to two feet high ; leaves rough ; panicle open 

 Glumes nearly equal in length, lance-shaped, their midrib and stems 

 rough ; joints of the rhachis bearded on one side between the flowers. 



This rare species has been reported from the shores of Moose- 

 head Lake by C. E. Smith. 



Genus DACTYLIS, Linneus. 

 Dac'-ty-lis. 



Derived from the Greek, dactylos* a finger, in allusion to the form 

 of the spike. 



The spikelets contain from three to five flowers, and are in dense 

 clusters at the ends of the short branches of a close, short panicle. 

 Outer glumes nearly equal in length, acute, rigid and keeled, with 

 from one to three nerves. Flowering glumes larger, more rigid, 

 keeled, five-nerved, bristle-pointed and ciliate on the keel. Palea a 

 little shorter than the glume, narrower, thinner and two-keeled. 



