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diffuse, usually two-thirds the entire height of the plant, the branches 

 and branchlets capillary; spikelets long-pediceled, 2- to 4-flowered, 

 2 to 3 mm long; glumes acute, 1 mm long; 

 lemmas acute, about 1.5 mm long, obscurely 

 nerved, rounded on the back, minutely 

 scabrous toward the tip; grain 0.5 mm long, 

 somewhat roughened, o — Dry open 

 ground, open woods, and 

 fields, Maine to Wisconsin, 

 south to Georgia, Kansas, 

 and eastern Texas (fig. 290). 

 15. Eragrostis frankii 

 C. A. Meyer. (Fig. 291.) 

 Resembling E. capillaris; 

 culms usually lower, spread- 

 ing to erect; sheaths gla- 

 brous except the pilose 

 throat; blades glabrous; 

 panicle less than half the 

 entire height of the plant, 

 open but not diffuse, mostly 

 less than half as wide as 

 long, the branches ascend- 

 ing, the shorter pedicels not 

 much longer than the spike- 

 lets; spikelets 3- to 5- 

 flowered, 2 to 3 mm long. 

 O — Sandbars, river 

 banks, and moist open 

 sim f° und > ^ew Hampshire to F 



plex. Panicle, X H; floret, X Minnesota, SOUth tO Florida oloides. Spikelet, X 10. 



io. (curtiss, na.) and Kansas (fig. 292). Era- (Curtiss 6898 ' FlaJ 



grostis frankii var. brevipes Fassett. Spikelets 5- to 7-flowered, 



3 to 4 mm long. © — Wisconsin 

 (Glenhaven), and Illinois. 



16. Eragrostis pilosa (L.) 

 Beauv. India lovegrass. (Fig. 

 293.) Weedy annual; culms 

 slender, erect or ascending from 



Figure 290.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis capillaris. 



a decumbent base, 10 to 50 cm 

 tall ; blades flat, 1 to 3 mm wide ; 

 panicle delicate, open, becoming 

 somewhat diffuse, 5 to 20 cm long, 

 the branches capillary, flexuous, 

 ascending or spreading, finally 

 somewhat implicate, the lower fascicled, sparsely long-pilose in the 



Figure 289.— Eragrostis capillaris. Panicle, X 1; 

 floret, X 10. (Dewey 35, D.C.) 



