-MUULENBEUUIA, SCnREB. ISl 



Tlio seeds are quito small and some timo is roquinMl for the 

 grass to beconu' Avell established. 



Concerning this grass, rmuld says: **It oonstitutea about 

 one-third of the natural grasses on the beaver dam meadows of 

 the Adirondaeks. It is certain that cattle relish it very mtu-h 

 both in its green state and when made into hay, and it is equally 

 certain that farnuM's who have it on their farms believe it to be 

 oiu' of the l)est grasses in their meadows." 



MrHLENHKIUilA, Sl.HKEB. 



Spikelets 1-llowered, small, panicU-d, ilowers perfect. Olnmes 

 3, the two lower empty, persistent below the joint, membranous 

 or hyaline, e(|ual or ol'tener unefjual, sometimes minute, or one 

 of them wholly wanting, keeled, acute, mucronate, or rarely 

 short or long awncd. The iloret Avith a minute callus or sessile, 

 usually bearded at Inise. The floral glume .'i-o-nerved, firm 

 or membranous, obtuse, acute, mucronate, or very often bearing 

 a slender awn. Palea hyaline, included, J2-keeled. Lodicules '^i, 

 very small. Stamens usually 3. Styles distinct, stigmas plu- 

 mose. Caryopsis narrow, subterete, inclosed by the floral glume, 

 free. 



Grasses of various habits. Panicles terminal and axillary, 

 narrow and slender, loose and branching, dense or spike-like, 

 spikelets small, slender. 



About GO species, mostly North American, a few found in the 

 Andes and Asia. 



M. gloiiierata, Trin, Muhlenberg's Orass^ Satin Grass, 

 Wild Timothy. — Culms erect, glaucous, 1-3 ft. high, branched, 

 or rarely simple. Panicle spike-like, dense, excerted, 2-3 in. 

 often lead colored, glumes awned, nearly equal. Common north- 

 ward in bogs, or at the west on dryer land. 



Fio. 81. M^thlenhergia alnmeritta; <x, plaiit; /), splkelet, c, floret; (U. S. AgriculU 

 ural Department and (Scribner). 



