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44 GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) 
crowded. Flowering panicles terminal on the culms and the many 
branches, two to six inches long, very slender and compact and 
usually partly enclosed in the upper sheaths. 
Means of control 
In fields and meadows, drainage and thorough cultivation of the 
ground are necessary in order to displace this grass. 
NIMBLE WILL, DROP-SEED GRASS 
Muhlenbérgia Schrebéri, J. F. Gmel. 
(Muhlenbérgia diffusa, Schreber.) 
Other English name: Wire-grass. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and 
by rooting at the joints. 
Time of bloom: August to September. 
- Seed-time: September to October. 
Range: From Maine to Minnesota and south- 
ward to Kansas, Texas, and Florida. 
Habitat: Lawns, pastures, and meadows. 
A low, slender, branching, almost creeping 
grass which grows on dry hills and in woods 
and shady places about dwellings. When 
young it is much liked by all kinds of stock, 
but it soon becomes so dry and wiry that no 
animal will eat it, and its tough, fibrous, inter- 
lacing roots make a sod which is very difficult 
to break up. 
Stems ten inches to two feet long, some- 
what flattened, usually prostrate at the base 
and often rooting at the lower joints, erecting 
the flowering stalks. Sheaths loose and 
smooth, the leaves two to four inches long but 
hardly more than an eighth of an inch wide 
and rough to the touch. Panicle very slen- 
der, two to six inches long, weak and bend- 
Y. ing; glumes of the spikelet very minute, the 
ane Sara lower one often lacking ; the lemma is rough, 
Schreberi). x }. strongly nerved, tipped with an awn, and 
