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WEEDS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN 



lets; flowering glumes covered with long, brownish hairs 

 and each bears a bent awn nearly twice as long as the 

 spikelets ; blooms from June to September. Abundant, 



Fig. 92. Crowfoot grass (Eleusine indica). (U. S. Dept. Agrl.) 



especially in the northern states, and in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and although much esteemed as a forage plant in 

 some sections of the country, notably in California, it is 

 a pernicious weed in grain fields. 



Wire Grass (Eleusine indica, Gaertn.). A coarse, tuft- 



