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axils glabrous; spikelets linear, usu- 

 ally 12- to 15-flowered, mostly about 



1 cm. long and 1.5 mm. wide; lemmas 



2 mm. long or slightly longer. O 

 — Waste places, Colorado and Kansas 

 to Texas and California; Mexico; in- 

 troduced from southern Europe. 



27. Eragrostis neomexicana Vasey. 

 (Fig. 212.) Annual; culms usually 

 rather stout, often widely spreading, 

 as much as 1 m. tall; sheaths gla- 



Figure 210. — Eragrostis poaeoides. Panicle, X 1 

 floret, X 10. (Dutton 2235, Vt.) 



brous, pilose at the throat, often with 

 glandular depressions along the keel 

 or nerves; blades flat, often elongate, 

 5 to 10 mm. wide; panicle 20 to 40 

 cm. long, smaller in depauperate 

 specimens, open, the branches ascend- 



FlGURE 212. 



-Eragrostis neomexicana. Panicle, X 1; 

 floret, X 10. (Type.) 



Figure 211. — Eragrostis barrelieri. Panicle, X 1; 

 floret, X 10. (Hitchcock 5280, Tex.) 



ing or spreading but not divaricate, 

 the branchlets at first appressed along 

 the main branches, finally usually 

 spreading, the axils glabrous; spike- 

 lets mostly dark grayish green, ovate 

 to ovate-oblong, or rarely linear, 

 mostly 8- to 12-flowered, 5 to 8 mm. 

 long, about 2 mm. wide ; lemmas 2 to 

 2.3 mm. long. O — Fields, waste 

 places, and wet ground, Texas to 

 southern California, south through 

 Mexico; introduced in Maryland, In- 

 diana, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Da- 

 kota, and Missouri. 



