44 



GBAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) 



crowded. Flowering panicles terminal on the culms and the many 

 branches, two to six inches long, very slender and compact and 

 usually partly enclosed in the upper sheaths. 



Means of control 



In fields and meadows, drainage and thorough cultivation of the 

 ground are necessary in order to displace this grass. 



Schreberi). x *. 



NIMBLE WILL, DROP-SEED GRASS 



Muhlenbergia Schreberi, J. F. Gmel. 

 (Muhlenbergia diffusa, Schreber.) 



Other English name: Wire-grass. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and 

 by rooting at the joints. 



Time of bloom : August to September. 



Seed-time : September to October. 



Range : From Maine to Minnesota and south- 

 ward to Kansas, Texas, and Florida. 



Habitat: Lawns, pastures, and meadows. 



A low, slender, branching, almost creeping 

 grass which grows on dry hills and in woods 

 and shady places about dwellings. When 

 young it is much liked by all kinds of stock, 

 but it soon becomes so dry and wiry that no 

 animal will eat it, and its tough, fibrous, inter- 

 lacing roots make a sod which is very difficult 

 to break up. 



Stems ten inches to two feet long, some- 

 what flattened, usually prostrate at the base 

 and often rooting at the lower joints, erecting 

 the flowering stalks. Sheaths loose and 

 smooth, the leaves two to four inches long but 

 hardly more than an eighth of an inch wide 

 and rough to the touch. Panicle very slen- 

 der, two to six inches long, weak and bend- 

 ing; glumes of the spikelet very minute, the 



lower ne Often laddn g; the lemma ls rOU S h > 

 strongly nerved, tipped with an awn, and 



