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ascending, solitary, rather distant, 

 naked below, rather closely flowered 

 with ascending or appressed branch- 

 lets; spikelets linear, 5 to 10 mm. long, 

 8- to 20-flowered; glumes about 1.3 

 and 1.7 mm. long; lemmas 1.5 to 2 

 mm. long, imbricate; palea persistent 

 only a short time after the fall of the 

 lemma, the naked rachilla persisting. 

 2[ — Sandy roadsides, Florida (St. 

 Petersburg) ; introduced from south- 

 eastern Asia. 



46. Eragrostis bahiensis Schrad. 

 (Fig. 230, A.) Resembling E. chariis; 

 panicle often more or less condensed; 

 spikelets as much as 30-flowered ; lem- 

 mas about 2 mm. long; palea per- 

 sistent. % — Introduced, Florida 

 (Milton, Pensacola), Alabama (Mo- 

 bile), and Louisiana (Avery Island); 

 Brazil. 



Figuee 231. — Eragrostis curvula. Panicle, X 1; floret, 

 X 10. (Silveus 2156, cult., Tex.) 



47. Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) 

 Nees. Weeping lovegrass. (Fig. 

 231.) Culms 60 to 120 cm. tall, 

 densely tufted, erect, simple or some- 

 times branching at the lower nodes; 

 sheaths narrow, keeled, glabrous or 

 sparsely hispid, the lower densely 

 hairy toward the base; blades elon- 



gate, involute, attenuate to a fine 

 point, arcuate spreading, scabrous; 

 panicles 20 to 30 cm. long, the 

 branches solitary or in pairs, ascend- 

 ing, naked at the base, at least the 

 lower densely pilose in the axils; 

 spikelets 7- to 11-flowered, 8 to 10 

 mm. long, gray green; lemmas about 

 2.5 mm. long, obtuse or subacute, the 

 nerves prominent. % — Culti- 

 vated for ornament; spontaneous in 

 Florida, Texas, and Arizona. Useful 

 in erosion control and showing prom- 

 ise of being valuable in revegetation 

 of grasslands in the Southern States. 



Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees. 

 Lehmann lovegrass. Perennial; 

 culms finally prostrate, 30 to 80 cm. 

 long, the nodes rooting and producing 

 tufts of branches; panicles 10 to 15 

 cm. long, open; spikelets linear, 10 to 

 12 mm. long. % — Introduced 

 from Africa, drought-resistant and 

 proving effective in erosion control, 

 Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona (well 

 established near Tucson). 



Eragrostis stenophylla Hochst. 

 Erect smooth annual, 30 to 40 cm. 

 tall, with loosely involute blades and 

 rather loose panicle with ascending 

 branches, the linear spikelets several- 

 flowered, the lemmas 1.3 mm. long. 

 O — Florida, Mississippi (Biloxi), 

 probably escaped from grass garden; 

 India. 



Eragrostis cyperoides (Thunb.) 

 Beauv. Stiff stout stoloniferous peren- 

 nial with sharp-pointed blades and 

 narrow elongate interrupted panicles, 

 the distant branches with naked 

 thornlike tips; spikelets coriaceous, 

 crowded. % — Oregon (Linnton), 

 on ballast; South Africa. 



Eragrostis tef (Zuccagni) Trotter. Teff. 

 Annual; culms branching and spreading, 30 

 to 100 cm. tall; panicle large and open; spike- 

 lets 5- to 9-flowered, 6 to 8 mm. long. 

 (E. abyssinica (Jacq.) Link.) — Occasionally 

 cultivated for ornament. Africa, where the 

 seed is used for food. 



Eragrostis obtusa Munro. Low branch- 

 ing perennial; panicles open, 5 to 10 cm. 

 long; spikelets gray olivaceous, broadly 

 ovate, the lemmas almost horizontally 

 spreading. % — Occasionally cultivated 

 for ornament. South Africa. 



