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plish, 4- to 8-flowered, 2.5 to 4 mm a • ultimate pedicels 



usually appressed; glumes about 1 mm long; lemmas acute 



1.3 mm long, the lateral nerves prominent 2 — Open ground, 



southern Te: 



39. Eragrostis trichodes X\.:t.) Nash. (Fig. 327.) Perennial; 

 culms tufted, erect. 60 to 120 cm tall; sheaths pilose at the - 



.- .—Eragrostw trichodes. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Beverchon, 1 



sometimes on the upper half; blades flat to ngate, 2 



to 6 mm wide., tapering to a slendei seal 3 



surface: panicle usually purplish 



the entire height of the culm, branching 3 or 4 times, the I 

 capillary, loosely ascendis sely pilose in the axils 



pedieeled, lanceolate to ovate-oblong, mostly 4- to 6-flowered, 4 - 7 

 mm Ion g : gi u 1 1 u lin a te, n e a ri 



to 3 mm L t as _ 



lemm as 2 5 t o 3 mm Ion _ te, 

 the keel and lateral nerves strew a in 1 mm 



long, minutely pitted : anthe 

 1 mm long. 9_ — Sand barrens pen 



sandy woods, Illinois and Nebraska to T 



Figure 32*.— Distribution of (f\ r _T QOQ 



E-zgrostutrichodts. j- ' J -_ . .,_ 



40. Eragrostis pilifera ScJ Gig. 32 



Resembling E. trichodes, often in smaller tufts iicle 



stramineous or golden-bronze : spikelets linear. S- to 15-flowered. § 

 1 2 mm long ; glumes and lemon las 1 3 mm long. 2. E 



Smith and Bush. — Sandhills and sand barrens. Dlin< 

 to Texas (fig. 330,. Probably only a variety of E. b 



41. Eragrostis spectabilis Pursh 31 I. Pueple loveg: 

 (Tig. 331. J Perennial: culms in den- stiffly erect to spreading, 



20 to 60 cm tall; sheaths glabrous or pilose, conspicuously hairy at 

 the throat : blades flat or folded, rather firm, stiffly ascending, tap 

 to a fine point, glabrous or rarely pilose, mostly 3 to 8 mm < nicle 



at first included at I r o third- the entire height of the culm, 



diffuse, bright purple, rarely ^ranching 



stiff, the branches stiffly spreading 



