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21. Eragrostis multicaulis Steud. 

 (Fig. 206. J Annual; resembling E. 

 tephrosanthos, but the axils of the 

 panicle glabrous; panicle branches 

 spikelet-bearing nearly to base; spike- 

 lets mostly 4- to 8-flo\vered, mostly 3 

 to 4 mm. long. O (E. peregrina 

 Wiegand.) — Waste places, Maine to 

 Wisconsin, south to Pennsylvania and 

 Virginia; ballast, Portland, Oreg. ; in- 

 troduced from Eurasia. 



22. Eragrostis orcuttiana Vasey. 

 (Fig. 207.) Annual; culms ascending 

 from a decumbent base, rather stout, 

 60 to 100 cm. tall; blades flat, 2 to 6 

 mm. Avicle; panicle open, 15 to 30 cm. 

 long, the branches, branchlets, and 

 pedicels slender, spreading, flexuous, 

 finally implicate, the axils glabrous; 

 spikelets linear, 6- to 10-flowered, 



sometimes a little falcate, 5 to 7 mm. 

 long, about 1 mm. wide; second 

 glume a little more than 1 mm. long; 

 lemmas loosely imbricate (the rachilla 

 often exposed), narrow, acutish, the 



Figure 206. — Eragrostis multicaulis. Panicle, X 1 ; 

 floret, X 10. (Hotchkiss 1708, N. Y.) 



Figure 207. — Eragrostis orcuttiana. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10- (Hitchcock 3063, Calif.) 



