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Fig. 512. ERAGROSTIS PILOSA (Linn.) Beauy. Agrost. 1812. - 
pilosa L.Sp.Pl.68. 1753. SLENDER MEADOW-GRASS.—A slender A 
ing annual 1.5-4.5 dm. (6-18) high, with narrow, flat leaf-blades and 0P^* 
ill es of l a d, 5- to 12. flowered spikelets (a) $9775 
(14-3") long; emp ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, a — 
flowering glumes (e) about 1.5 mm. (% long, with the lateral nerves Y and té 
or obsolete. Palea (d) urge on the keels, The grain is shown by ^ 
rachis of a e by b.—In cultivated fields, — an y 
Massachusetts to Illinois a 2 Kansas, south to Florida, 
Texas, and gaps 
e ge distributed in tropical and warm temperate countries.) June to 
Be ees 
oe mera are 
nerve] flowering glumes. 
distinguished from E. purshii Scrhad., by me pages pun f 
