2r)« POACK.E. 



pulK'sccnt on the lower third, iihoiit 3..') nun. lon;^, the uwn 10- 

 15 mm. long: \ni\vii pubescent on the nerves, nearly us long iis its 

 glume. 



I)rv wood lands. 



Pennsylvania, ('/<n-A- VM}.\: District of Columbia, McCarthy; 

 Michigan, Clark i\\)\^; Indiana, lUal. 



Mew England to Arkansas. 



:}4. M. capillaris (Lam.) Trin. Unifl. 191 (IS-M). S/i))a ra/iil- 

 laris Lam. Illnstr. 1 : l.*)S (i:!ll). S/ijia <liffuKa Walt. Fl. Car. IH 

 (17S.S). Slijia scrirea Midix. Kl. Hor. Am. 1 : 54 (KS0;5). Ayroxlix 

 .scrinv Ell. IJot. S. C. & Ga. l-.VA^t (1817). 



A tufted erect perennial, (JO-lOO cm. high; roots librous. 

 Culms hard, simi)le. straiglit, erect. Ligule :J— t mm. long; blades 

 conduplicate, rigid, those of the euhn 15-20 cm. long, those of tl.o 

 sterile shoots 25-40 cm. long, all j)ungent-pointed, sub(.'\lindrical, 

 about 1 mm. diani. Panicle often purple, very loose, erect, o])en, 

 ovoid or narrow, 25-.'35 cm. long, rays in twos, threes or single, 

 spreading, branches diverging, very slender, stilT or floxuose. Spike- 

 lets single, pedi(!elsl-3 cm. long; empty glumes subequal, 1-nerved, 

 1.5-3 mm. long; first awned or not, second awned; lloral glume 

 smooth except the hairy tuft below, linear-lanceolate, 3-ncrved, 3.5 

 mm. long, the central awn G-15 mm. long; palea as long as its 

 glume, sometimes awned. 



Georgia, T^. S. Dept. Ayricul. 300, from Latimer; Florida, 

 Curtiss 3401. 



Mew England to Florida. Missouri and Texas. 



Var. filipes (C'urtis) Cluipm. J/. Jilipes M. A. Curt. Am. 

 Journ. Sei. (L) 44:83 (1843). 



En)pty glumes about 1 mm. long, each with a slender awn 3-20 

 mm. long, floral glume with lateral awns 3-5 mm. long. 



Florida. CiirHs.s 3401. 



Var. trichopodes (Ell.) Vasey, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 06 

 (1802). Ayrns/is trichopodes Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 135 (1810). 



Leaf-bhuh's flat or conduidicate, floral glume with an awn l-(i 

 mm. long, palea a little longer than its glume. 



