230 NATIVE FOKAGE PLANTS 



ERAGROSTIS CAPILLARIS, Ness (Hair-panided Meadow 

 Grass.} 



Spikelets small, two to four flowered, greenish and purplish, leavei 

 and sheaths hairy ; panicle loose, delicate and spreading and one to 

 two feet long. 



It flowers in August and September, and grows in poor 

 waste places. May be used in dried flower bouquets. 



ERAGROTIS TENTHS, Gray--(Z>eftcafc Spear Grass.) 



Glumes awl-shaped and very acute ; lower palea three-nerved, leaves 

 from, one to two feet long; panicles very loose, one to two feet long. 

 Flowers from August until frost sets in. 



It grows on rich sandy soil, and is of no value for graz- 

 ing. Exceedingly common on river banks. 



ERAGROTIS PURSHII, Schrad--(/SWAem Eragrostis). 



Has a lengthened, widely spreading panicle, very loose ; branching 

 stems spikelets two to seven-flowered; glumes and lower palea acute. 

 Flowers in August. Nashville. No value. 



ERAGROSTIS MEGASTACHYA, IAn}a-(Pungent Eragrostis.) 



Flowers in August or September, and emits a sharp, 

 pungent odor, when fresh, hence its name. It grows on 

 sandy fields ; Nashville in all gardens as a weed. It is re- 

 jected by stock. 



EATONIA Raff, (Eatonia)-- 



Spikelets usually 2-flowered, and with an abortive rudiment or pedi- 

 cel, numerous in a contracted or slender panicle, very smooth. Glumei 

 somewhat equal in length, but very dissimilar, a little shorter than the 

 flowers; the lower narrowly linear, keeled, 1 -nerved ; the upper broad- 

 ly obovate folded round the flowers, 3-nerved on the back, not keeled, 

 scarious margined. Lower palet oblong, obtuse, compressed, boat- 

 shaped, naked, chartaceo is ; the upper very thin and hyaline. Sta- 

 mens 3. Grain linear oblong, not grooved. 



EATONIA PENNSYLVANIA, Gray- (Pennsylvanian Eatvnia.) 



A perennial and slender grass with simple and tufted culms, polished 

 and shining spikelets like no other of the indigenous grasses. It grows 

 plentifully in Middle Tennessee, loves borders of woods and thickets. 

 Cattle seem to prefer it to any other pickings in the woods. 



