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Figure 192.— Eragrostis ciliaris. Plant, X }4; spikelet, X 5; floret, X 10. (Nash 2104, Fla.) 



Carolina to Florida and Mississippi; 

 Texas; New Jersey (ballast); West 

 Indies and Mexico to Brazil and 

 Peru; Africa; Asia. Specimens with 

 laxer panicles of more spreading 

 loosely flowered branches have been 

 differentiated as E. ciliaris var. laxa 

 Kuntze. 



8. Eragrostis amahilis (L.) Wight 

 and Arn. ex Nees. (Fig. 193.) Annual, 

 resembling E. ciliaris; blades as 



much as 5 mm. wide; panicle oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4 cm. wide, 

 rather open ; spikelets 4- to 8-flowered, 

 about 2 mm. long; glumes less than 

 1 mm. long; lemmas ovate, obtuse, 

 1 mm. long; keels of palea long- 

 ciliate, the hairs about 0.3 mm. long. 

 O (E. plumosa Link.) — Gardens and 

 waste places, Georgia and Florida; 

 Texas; tropical America; apparently 

 introduced from the Old World. 



