54 GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) 
HAIRY SPEAR-GRASS 
Eragréstis pilésa, Beauv. 
Other English names: Tufted Spear-grass, Slender Meadow-grass. 
Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: August to October. . 
Range: Maine to Minnesota, southward to Florida and Texas. 
Habitat: Fields and waste places. Sandy or gravelly soil. 
Stems growing in tufts from fibrous roots, six to eighteen inche: 
tall, smooth, slender, erect or decumbent at base, diffusely branched 
Sheaths shorter than the internodes, smooth or sometimes sparingl} 
hairy at the throat, the ligule a ring of short hairs; blades one t« 
five inches long, flat, about a tenth of an inch wide, rough above 
smooth below. Panicle three to six inches in length, with man) 
slender, spreading branches, having minute tufts of hair in thi 
axils, particularly the lower ones. Spikelets very small, hardly : 
line wide, five to eighteen-flowered. Seeds often an impurity o 
other small grass seeds. 
Means of control 
Prompt cutting before the formation of seed. This grass make 
tolerably good hay, but there is so small a quantity to the acre tha 
it is an economy to supersede it with forage of a better quality. 
STINK-GRASS 
Eragréstis megastachya, Link. 
(Eragréstis major, Host.) 
Other English names: Strong-scented Meadow-grass, Pungen 
Meadow-grass, Snake-grass, Candy-grass. 
Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to September. 
Seed-time: July to October. 
Range: In southern Canada and in most parts of the United States 
Especially troublesome in the Southwest. 
Habitat: Fields and waste places. 
A very handsome grass, but offensive to grazing animals botl 
as green forage and as hay. Culms ten inches to three feet high 
