native Grasses of Kansas. 69 



116. Stinking Gbass; Pungent Meadow-grass; Candy Grass; Eragrostis major, 

 Host. — An introduced but abundant grass in cultivated land, growiDg 1 to 2 feet high, 

 the lower joints bent and giving rise to long branches. The panicle is 4 or 5 inches 

 long, and full-flowered. The spikelets are i to £ inch long, and ten to twenty- 

 flowered. The disagreeable odor of this grass has given rise to its common name, 

 but it is not refused by stock. 



117. Eragrostis pilosa, Beauv. — The culms of this are slender, branching and 

 spreading at the base. The panicle is elongated-oblong. The spikelets are 5 to 

 12-flowered, 2 to 4 lines long, purplish lead-color, and about equaling the pedicels. 

 Not abundant nor important. 



118. Eragrostis Frankii, Mey. — This is much branched and diffuse, 3 to 8 inches 

 high, with an ovate-oblong panicle which is rather dense and spreading. The 

 spikelets are 2 to 5-flowered, 1 to lj lines long, having slender pedicels. Said to 

 occur in Kansas, but of no known value. 



119. Eragrostis Purshii, Schrad. — This is somewhat branched at the decumbent 

 base, then erect, i to 2 feet high. The panicle is elongated and has widely spread- 

 ing branches. The spikelets are 5 to 18-flowered, 2 to 4J lines long, and usually 

 much shorter than the capillary pedicels. It grows in low, sandy ground, but not 

 abundant enough to be useful. 



120. Eragrostis oxylepis, Torr. — The culms in this species are 2 or 2\ feet high, 

 branching below. The panicle is 4 to 6 inches high, narrow, with sessile or short 

 pedicelled interrupted branches. The spikelets are large, 4 to 9 lines long, and 10 

 to 20-flowered. Reported in Kansas, but of no known value. 



120 \. Eragrostis tenuis, Gr. — The culms are tufted, erect, firm, and the lower 

 leaves are very long. The panicle is very long, often longer than the culm, (1 to 2^ 

 feet long,) very loose, the slender branches spreading and dividing into diverging 

 capillary pedicels. A very graceful grass, but of doubtful value. 



121. Eragrostis capillaris, Nees. — The panicle, which is usually much longer 

 than the culm (1 to 2 feet long), is widely expanding, having its spreading branches 

 and long, diverging pedicels capillary. The very small, cylindrical spikelets (2 to 

 4-flowered) are greenish or purplish. The leaves and sheaths are very hairy or 

 sometimes nearly smooth. A late summer or autumn weed. 



122. Eragrostis pectinacea, Gr. — This is much like the last species, but the main 

 branches of the panicle are bearded in their axils (in the preceding these are mostly 

 naked), and the spikelets are flat and 5 to 15-flowered, 2 to 3 lines long, and 1 line 

 wide. An abundant weed in meadows, pastures, <fcc, late in summer and autumn. 



Eatonia, Raf.— A genus of two (American) species, of perennial grasses, with numerous spikelets 

 in a contracted or slender panicle. The spikelets are usually 2-flowered, and with au abortive rudi- 

 ment or pedicel. The outer glumes are unequal, the lower narrowly linear, keeled, 1-nerved, the upper 

 broadly obovate, shorter than the spikelet, 3-nerved, not keeled, and scarious on the margin. The 

 flowering glumes are oblong, obtuse, compressed, and chartaceous. The palet is narrow and hyaline. 



123. Obtuse Eatonia; Prairie Grass; Eatonia obtusata, Gr. — A grass much 

 like the Crested Koeleria in habit and size, but somewhat inferior in value. The 

 panicle is dense and contracted, or rarely slender. The florets are very obtuse, and 

 the second glume is broader than long, and saccate around the floret. 



124. Eastern Eatonia; Prairie Grass; Eatonia Pennsylvania, Gr. — A taller 

 and more robust species than the last, with a larger and more open panicle. The 

 florets are longer and usually more pointed (sometimes even awned), and the second 

 glume is not so broad in proportion to its length. Like the last in value, but not 

 abundant in our State. (Plate No. 124.) 



Koeleria, Pers.— A small genus of perennial tufted grasses with a dense and narrow spike-like 

 panicle. The spikelets are 3 to 5-flowered and compressed. The outer glumes are membranaceous, 



