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Means of control 
GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) 
Cultivate and enrich the soil by furnishing it with humus “to 
enable it to retain moisture, thus putting it in condition to support 
grasses or other plants of better quality. 
Fic. 17. — Few- 
flowered Aristida 
(Aristida oligantha). 
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FEW-FLOWERED ARISTIDA 
Aristida oligdéntha, Michx. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to October. 
Seed-time: August.to November. 
Range: New Jersey to Nebraska, southward to 
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. 
Habitat: Dry grasslands, waste places. 
A worthless, wiry grass, similar to the pre- 
ceding, and, like it, partial to sterile soil. Stems 
tufted, very slender, erect, branched at base, 
and forked at every joint. Sheaths long and 
loose, smooth but with minutely hairy ligules, 
the blades. smooth, two to six inches long, 
hardly an eighth of an inch wide, involute, and 
extended to a very long, sharp point. Panicle 
very narrow, and flexuous, bearing only a few, 
sometimes but two or three spreading spikelets, 
with the triple awns divergent but ascending, 
and usually all about equal in length or the 
central one somewhat exceeding the other two. 
(Fig. 17.) 
Means of control the same as for Poverty- 
grass. 
SAND-GRASS 
Aristida fasciculata, Michx. 
Other English name: Three-awned Needle-grass. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: August to October. 
Seed-time: September to November. 
Range: Kansas to California, Arizona, New 
’ Mexico, and Texas. 
Habitat: Dry, sterile fields, pastures, and waste 
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