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GEAMINEAB (GRASS FAMILY;) 



196. E. areiiarius x %. 

 Two apikelets. 

 Spikelet with glumes detached. 



a a. SpikeUts appressed to the rhachis. 

 1. E. Macoiinii Vasey. Culms 3-8 dm. high ; sheaths glabrous or the lower 



sparsely pilose ; blades 8-16 cm. long, i mm. wide or less, erect, often involute 

 in drying, scabrous, the lower usually pilose on 

 the upper surface ; spikes narrow, 6-10 cm. long; 

 spikelets 1-i-fiuwered, the lower solitary and often 

 apparently with 3 glumes, the missing spikelet 

 being reduced to a single glume; glumes linear- 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved, scabrous, tapering into an 

 awn ; lemmas 8-10 mm. long, scabrous above, 

 with a slender awn 6-10 mm. long. — Prairies, 

 Minn., la., and westw. 



8. E. glaiicus Buckley. Glabrous ; culms 5-1 

 dm. high ; leaves 1.5-2 dm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, 

 rather thin, flat, scabrous; spikes ^lender, the 

 internodes 8-10 mi/i. long ; spikelets 3-8-flowered ; 

 glumes linear-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, smooth or 

 scabrous on the nerves, short-awned, shorter 

 than the nearly smooth lemma which bears an 



awn twice its own length. — Moist soilj Ont. to Mich., and westw. July, Aug. 



f- ■>- Glumes and lemmas not rigid, aionless ; plants reed-like. 



9. E. arenHrius L. Culms stout, 6-12 dm. high, from extensively creeping 

 rootstocks ; leaves firm, setaceous-involute toward the ends, the basal ones 

 crowded, 2-3 cm. long, the upper shorter ; spike stiff, dense, 8-25 cm. long, 

 1.5-2 cm. thick; spikelets in pairs or solitary, 3-7-flowered, 2.5-3 cin. long, 

 often glaucous ; glumes and lemmas acuminate or mucronate, short-villous. 

 {E. mollis Trin.) — Maritime sands, Lab. to Me. ; and shores of the Great 

 Lakes. (Eurasia.) Fig. 196. 



* * Glumes reduced to short awns. 



10. E. diversiglimis Scribn. & Ball. Culms stout, 9-12 dm. high; leaves lax, 

 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, scabrous, setaceous-pointed; spike loose 

 below, 1-1.5 dm. long ; spikelets 2-flowered ; 

 glumes subulate, scabrous, varying from a mere 

 point to 1.5 cm. long in the same spike; florets 

 8-10 mm. long, hirsute, especially toward the 

 summit, with a divergent awn 2-3 cm. long. — 

 Thickets and open woods. Wis., Minn. , and westw. 

 — Approaches Mystrix. 



SitInion longif6i,ium .T. G. Sm., a western 

 tufted perennial 3-5 dm. high, with crowded basal 

 sheaths, long spreading upper leaves, partially 

 included loose long-awned disarticulating spikes 

 about 1 dm. long, the glumes divided to the base 

 into 2 long divergent awns (6-8 cm. long), occurs 

 in central Kan. and westw. and is reported from 

 central Minn. Kig. 197. 



191, 9. longifoUum x %. 

 Two spikelets. 

 Spikelet with glumes detached. 



82. HYSTRIX Moench. Bottle-brush Grass 



Spikelets 2-4-flowered, on very short pedicels, 1-3 together at each joint of 

 the flattened continuous rhachis, facing it as in Elymus, widely divergent at 

 maturity ; glumes reduced to short or minute awns, the first usually obsolete, 

 both often wanting in the upper spikelets ; lemmas convex, rigid, tapering into 

 a long awn ; palea strongly 2-keeled ; grain pubescent at the summit, free within 

 the lemma and palea. — Perennials with simple culms, flat leaves and loosely 

 flo\Yered spikes, (Name froni wrpi^, a, hedgehog, alluding to the bristly spikes.) 



