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depth. Its habit of growth unfits it for a lawn grass. 

 Its seed weighs twelve pounds to the bushel, and, to 

 sow alone, about twenty-four pounds to the acre are 

 required to make sure of a good crop. It should not 

 be sown alone except for the sake of raising the seed. 

 It is worthy of a much more extended cultivation 

 among us. 



28. KCBLEEIA. 



Spikelets crowded in a dense, spike-like panicle, three 

 to seven flowered. Glumes and lower palea compressed, 

 keeled ; stamens tiiree ; grain free. 



Crested Kceleria {Kceleria cristata) is a perennial 

 grass from two to two and a half feet high, and some- 

 what common on dry, gravelly places from Pennsylvania 

 to Illinois and westward. Panicle narrowlj^ spiked ; 

 lower palea pointed ; leaves flat, the lower ones some- 

 what hairy. 



Truncated Kceleria {Kceleria truncata) has a dense 

 and contracted panicle, with the spikelets crowded on" 

 the short branches ; upper glume truncate, obtuse, 

 rough on the back. Perennial ; growing from two to 

 three feet high, and flowering in June, on dry soils 

 from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, and southward. 



29. Eatonia. 



Glumes nearly equal, but dissimilar, and shorter than 

 the flowers ; the lower one-nerved, keeled ; the upper 

 three-nerved on the back, not keeled. Lower palea 

 oblong, compressed, boat-shaped ; stamens three. 



Pennsylvanian Eatonia (Eafonia Pennsylranica) is a 

 common grass in moist M'oods and meadows, in the 

 Eastern, Middle, and Western States ; growing about 

 two feet high, perennial, and flowering in June and 



