2. Erianthus saccharoides Michx. 



Erianthns saccharoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 



55- I803- 



Culms robust, erect, 5-io tall, barbed at 

 the nodes, the summit and the axis of the pan- 

 icle densely pubescent with appressed long 

 rigid silky hairs. Sheaths glabrous or spar- 

 ingly hairy below, densely pubescent at the 

 throat with long more or less spreading 

 silky hairs ; leaves scabrous or apprcssed- 

 pubescent, 6'-2 long, %'-\' wide, long- 

 acuminate, somewhat narrowed towards the 

 base ; panicle lax, broadly oblong, $'-15' 

 long, 2 '-4' wide, its branches spreading, 2'- 

 4' long, slender, internodes about 2" long ; 

 outer scales of the spikelet about 2" long, 

 a little exceeding the pedicel and about one- 

 half as long as the basal hairs, lanceolate, 

 acuminate; inner scales shorter, the awn 

 Io // -i2 // long, straight, scabrous. 



GRASS FAMILY. 



Plume Grass. ! 







In moist sandy >uil, >uthcutrrn 

 Floridaand Louisiana. Also in Cuba. 



AUK 



3. Erianthus compactus N;i>h. 

 tracted Plunie-gi Ig. _M;. 



/Irian Ih us ( c;//></<7//v Nash. Hull Tuir. Club. 13 

 419. 1895. 



Culms erect, 4-S tall, stout, the nodes 

 barbed, the summit and axis of the panicle 

 densely pubescent with appressed long rigid 

 silky hairs. Sheaths glabrous, or pubescent at 

 the top ; leaves scabrous above, sparingly ap- 

 pressed-pubescent beneath, 6'-2 long, 3"-6" 

 wide, long-acuminate, narrowed toward the 

 base ; panicle narrowly oblong, 4' '-6' long, about 

 \y t ' wide; branches erect, ' 2' long: spikelets 

 crowded ; internodes about i " long ; outer scale* 

 of the spikelet about 2#" long, exceeding the 

 pedicels and about equalling the basal hairs. 

 lanceolate, acuminate: inner scales shorter, the 

 awn s // -io // long, straight, scabrous. 



In moist soil. Ni w ] -th Carolina and 



Tennessee. Aufj.-St-pt 



4. Erianthus brevibarbis Michx. Short- 

 bearded Plume-grass. (Fig. 214.) 



Erianthus brevtbarbis~M.ichx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 55. 1803. 

 Erianthus saccharoides Michx. sub-sp. brevibarbis 



Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6: 131. 1889. 



Culms stout, erect, 4-5 tall, nodes naked or 

 scantily barbed, the summit and axis of the panicle 

 smooth or scabrous. Sheaths glabrous; leaves 

 rough, i2'-i8 / long, 3 // -5 // wide, acuminate ; pan- 

 icle linear- oblong, S'-io' in length, \'-\Yz' wide, 

 branches erect, 2 / -5 / long, internodes about 2j" 

 long ; outer scales of the spikelet about 4" long, 

 twice the length of the pedicel and equalling or 

 twice as long as the basal hairs, lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate; inner scales shorter; awng^-ia" long, 

 straight, scabrous. 



In moist soil, Virginia (according to Watson) to 

 North Carolina and Louisiana. Autumn. 



