290 OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 



21. Nothoholcus Nash. Velvet-grass. 



Perennial grasses with densely flowered terminal panicles. 

 Spikelets 2-flowered articulated below the empty glumes, the lower 

 flower perfect, the upper staminate ; empty glumes membranous, 

 keeled, the outer 1-nerved, the inner 3-nerved and often short-awned ; 

 lemmas chartaceous, that of the upper flower bearing a bent awn ; 

 palet narrow, 2-keeled, grain free, enclosed in the glumes. 



1. Nothoholcus lanatus (L.) Nash. Velvet-grass. A light 

 green, perennial, densely and softly pubescent grass with erect sim- 

 ple stems, often decumbent at the base, 1-3 ft. high, and a narrow 

 purplish panicle. Spikelets nearly as broad as long; lemmas ciliate 

 at the apex, that of the second flower with a hook-like awn. 



In fields, meadows and waste places. June-August. Lake, 

 Trumbull, Cuyahoga, Lorain, Erie, Wayne, Fairfield. From Europe. 



