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MEADOW COMB GRASS. 



glumes and lower pale obtuse ; on sandy and gravelly 

 waste places, from New England to Illinois, and south- 

 ward. It is from six to twelve inches high. 



SHORT-STALKED MEADOW (Eragrostis Frankii}, a grass 

 found in low sandy ground in Ohio, Illinois, and south- 

 westward ; has a dense spreading panicle ; spikelets 

 from two to five flowered, on slender pedicels; glumes 

 acute ; lower pale egg-shaped, acute. Grows from three 

 to eight inches high. 



SOUTHERN ERAGROSTIS (Eragrostis Purshii) grows 

 with a lengthened panicle, widely spreading, and very 

 loose ; on sandy and sterile lands, from New Jersey to 

 Virginia, and southward. Spikelets shorter than their 

 hairy pedicels ; glumes and lower pale acute. Flowers 

 in August. 



BRANCHING SPEAR GRASS (Eragrostis tennis) is 

 another species, found from Illinois to Virginia, and at 

 the South, on soils similar to the last, with a panicle 

 from one to two feet long, and very loose. Glumes 

 awl-shaped, very acute ; lower pale three-nerved ; leaves 

 from one to two feet long. Flowers from August to 

 October. 



HAIR-PANICLED MEADOW GRASS (Eragrostis capillaris}, 

 with its expanding, loose, and delicate panicle, from one 

 to two feet long, is found in sandy, waste places, and 

 very common southward. Spikelets small, two to four 

 flowered, and greenish or purplish ; leaves and sheaths 

 hair} 7 . Flowers in August and September. 



MEADOW COMB GRASS (Eragrostis pectinacea) is found 

 also from New England southward, near the coast, and 

 from Michigan and Illinois southward. Panicle widely 

 diffuse ; spikelets flat, five to fifteen flowered, purple ; 

 glumes and flowers acutish ; lower pale three-nerved ; 

 leaves rigid, long, and hairy. 



