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3. Eragrostis bahamensis Hitchc. Eep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 149. 1893. 



Perennial, somewhat glaucous; culms slender, wiry, glabrous, 1-3 dm. 

 high. Leaves setaceous, 8 cm. long or less; spikelets sessile, distant, loosely 

 spicate, oblong, many-flowered, 6-10 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide; flowering 

 scales 3-nerved, glaucous, compressed. 



Wet or moist rocky places, Rum Cay, Acklin's Island. Ambergris Cay, Little 

 Inagua, Inagua and Grand Turk. Endemic. BAHAMA LOVE-GRASS. 



4. Eragrostis prolifera (Sw.) Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. 278. 3855. 



Poa prolifera Sw. Prodr. 27. 1788. 



Poa domingensis Pers. Syn. 1 : 88. 1805. 



Eragrostis gigantea Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 1: 403. 1831. 



Perennial, tall ; culms slender, up to 2 m. high, often forming large clumps. 

 Leaves elongated, 1.5-6 mm. wide; panicle large, sometimes 6-7 dm. long, 

 broad or narrow, the axils of its branches usually without hairs; spikelets 

 several on the branchlets of the panicle, pale green, short-stalked, linear, 

 about 10 mm. long; palets glabrous. 



In sand, Whale Cay : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Guadeloupe ; Martinique ; Jamaica ; 

 Cayman Islands. TALL LOVE-GRASS. 



5. Eragrostis ciliaris (L,) Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 192. 1827. 



Poa ciliaris L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 875. 1759. 



Annual; culms densely tufted, slender, erect or ascending, 3 dm. high or 

 less; leaf -sheaths with a tuft of hairs at the top and usually ciliate, the blades 

 flat, 2-7 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide; panicle narrow, dense, 2-10 cm. long, its 

 branches appressed; spikelets 3-4 mm. long, 6-16-flowered ; palet-nerves long- 

 ciliate. 



Waste places and roadsides, Great Bahama, Abaco, Little Harbor Cay, New 

 Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Acklin's Island, Long Cay, Sand Cay, Grand 

 Turk, Inagua, and Anguilla Isles : Georgia and Florida to Mississippi ; West Indies 

 and tropical America. 



6. Eragrcstis amabilis (L.) W. & A.; H. & A. Bot. Beechey Voy. 251. 1841. 



Poa amaUlis L. Sp. PI. 68. 1753. 



Poa plumosa Eetz. Obs. 4: 20. 1786. 



Eragrostis plumosa Link, Hort. Berol. 1 : 192. 1827. 



Annual; culms slender, densely tufted, erect or ascending, 1-4 dm. high. 

 Sheaths commonly with a tuft of hairs at the top, their margins usually 

 cllate; leaf -blades 2-10 cm. long, 4 mm. wide or less; panicle-branches spread- 

 ing or ascending; spikelets about 2 mm. long, 4-8-flowered, the palets ciliate 

 with very short hairs. 



Waste places and cultivated grounds, New Providence and Inagua : Georgia 

 and Florida ; West Indies ; tropical continental America ; Old World Tropics. Re- 

 corded by Hitchcock as E. major Retz, but written up by him on the label of his 

 Inagua specimen as E. minor. PLUMED LOVE-GRASS. 



33. UNIOIiA L. Sp. PI. 71. 1753. 



Erect and often tall grasses with flat or convolute leaves and paniculate 

 inflorescence. Spikelets 3-many-flowered, flat, 2-edged, the flowers perfect, or 

 the upper staminate. Scales flattened, keeled, sometimes winged, rigid, usually 

 acute; the lower 3-6 empty, unequal; the flowering scales many-nerved, the 

 uppermost scales often smaller and empty; palets rigid, 2-keeled. Stamens 1-3. 

 Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain compressed, free, loosely enclosed 



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