MUHLENBERGIA. 



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in moist roads and shaded swamps, rather common ; 



flower monandrous. Of no special 



value. 



agricultural 



2, C. Pendula, Gray (Drooping Red Grass). 

 Grows in moist woods ; perennial, flowering in 

 August. 



11. MUHLENBERGIA Schreber. DROP SEED 

 GRASS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, in contracted, or rarely in 

 open panicles ; glumes mostly acute or bristle-point- 

 ed, persistent, the lower rather smaller or minute ; 

 flower very short-stalked or sessile in the glumes ; 

 the palets usually minutely bearded at the base, 

 herbaceaus. deciduous with the enclosed grain, often 

 equal, the lower 3-neved, mucronate, or awned at 

 the apex ; stamens 3. 



Dedicated to the Eev. Dr. Henry Muhlenberg, a dis* 

 tinguished American botanist of the early part of 

 this century. 



1. M. Sobolifera (Awnless Muhlenbergia). Open, 

 rocky woods, from Massachusetts and Michigan, Illi- 

 nois, and southward. Flowers in August. 



2. M. Grlomerata (Cluster* i 

 mon in swamps, low grouii'l 

 August and September. 



Muhlenbergia). Corn- 

 bogs, etc. Flowers in 



