136 BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



glumes has been named 

 L. arkansana pilosa (Trin.) 

 Scribn. 



61. ALOPECURUS L., the meadow 

 foxtails. 



Spikelets 1 -flowered, disar- 

 ticulating below the glumes, 

 strongly compressed laterally; 

 glumes equal, awnless, usually 

 united at base, ciliate on the 

 keel; lemma about as long 

 as the glumes, 5-nerved, ob- 

 tuse, the margins united at 

 base, bearing from below 

 the middle a slender dorsal 

 awn, this included or ex- 

 serted two or three times the 

 length of the spikelet; palea 

 wanting. 



Low or moderately tall per- 

 ennial grasses with flat blades 

 and soft, dense, spikelike pan- 

 icles. Species about 25, in tem- 

 perate regions of the North- 



FIG. 74. Meadow foxtail, Alopecurus pratensis. Plant, X I ; spikelet and floret, X 5. 



ern Hemisphere. Of the eight North American species, two 

 are introductions from Europe and two are widely distributed in 



