54 GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) 



HAIRY SPEAR-GRASS 

 Eragrostis pilbsa, Beauv. 



Other English names: Tufted Spear-grass, Slender Meadow-grass. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : July to September. 



Seed-time: August to October. 



Range: Maine to Minnesota, southward to Florida and Texas. 



Habitat: Fields and waste places. Sandy or gravelly soil. 



Steins growing in tufts from fibrous roots, six to eighteen inches 

 tall, smooth, slender, erect or decumbent at base, diffusely branched. 

 Sheaths shorter than the internodes, smooth or sometimes sparingly 

 hairy at the throat, the ligule a ring of short hairs ; blades one to 

 five inches long, flat, about a tenth of an inch wide, rough above, 

 smooth below. Panicle three to six inches in length, with many 

 slender, spreading branches, having minute tufts of hair in the 

 axils, particularly the lower ones. Spikelets very small, hardly a 

 line wide, five to eighteen-flowered. Seeds often an impurity of 

 other small grass seeds. 



Means of control 



Prompt cutting before the formation of seed. This grass makes 

 tolerably good hay, but there is so small a quantity to the acre that 

 it is an economy to supersede it with forage of a better quality. 



STINK-GRASS 



Eragrdstis megastachya, Link. 

 (Eragrdstis major, Host.) 



Other English names: Strong-scented Meadow-grass, Pungent 



Meadow-grass, Snake-grass, Candy-grass. 

 Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : June to September. 

 Seed-time: July to October. 

 Range : In southern Canada and in most parts of the United States. 



Especially troublesome in the Southwest. 

 Habitat: Fields and waste places. 



A very handsome grass, but offensive to grazing animals both 

 as green forage and as hay. Culms ten inches to three feet high, 



