MICHIGAN WEEDS. 



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Fig. 13 (13). 



Barnyard Grass. Echinochloa crus-gaili 

 (L.) Beauv. (Panicum crus-galli L.) A coarse, 

 erect or spreading annual, 30-120 cm. high. 

 Spikes dense, alternate, simple or compound, 

 2-8 cm. long bearing spikelets on two sides 

 of a three-sided rachis. Very variable in size 

 and color. Waste grounds especially where 

 moist, flowering all summer. Throughout the 

 warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



Fig. 14 (14). 



Goose or Yard-grass. Eleusine indica (L.) 

 Gaertn. A coarse, erect or spreading annual, 

 15-16 cm. high, each stem bearing at the apex 

 or near it 2-5 diverging spikes, 5-7 cm. long. 

 Rachis flattened. More common in tropical 

 and warm temperate regions than in Michigan. 



