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mm long, o — Mississippi (Biloxi), probably escaped from grass 

 garden. India. 



Eragrostis cyperoides (Thunb.) Beauv. Stiff stout stoloniferous 

 perennial with sharp-pointed blades and narrow elongate interrupted 

 panicles, the distant branches with naked thorn like tips; spikelets 



coriaceous, crowded. 91 — Oregon (Linn ton), 



on ballast. South Africa. 



Eragrostis abyssinica (Jacq.) Link. Teff. 

 Annual; culms branching and spreading, 30 to 100 cm 

 tall; panicle large and open; spikelets 5- to 9-flowered, 

 6 to 8 mm long. — Occasionally cultivated for 

 ornament. Africa, where the seed is used for food. 



Eragrostis tenella (L.) Beauv. Tall branching 

 annual; blades long, lax; panicles numerous, pale, 20 

 to 50 cm long, narrow but loose; spikelets minute. O 

 (E. japonica Trin.) — Occasionally cultivated for ornament. Asia. 



Eragrostis obtusa Munro. Low branching perennial; panicles open, 5 to 10 

 cm long; spikelets gray-olivaceous, broadly ovate, the lemmas almost horizontally 

 spreading. 91 — Occasionally cultivated for ornament. South Africa. 



Eragrostis chloromelas Steud. Branching perennial, 40 to 65 cm tall with 



Figure 337.— Distribution of 

 Eragrostis refracta. 



Figure 338. 



-A, Eragrostis bahiensis. Panicle, X 1; floret, X 10. (Hitchcock 19862, La.) B, E. chariis, 

 X 10. (Weatherwax 822, Fla.) 



hard tufted base; blades involute; panicle loose, 8 to 12 cm long; spikelets dark 

 olivaceous. 91 — Occasionally cultivated for ornament. South Africa. 



Eragrostis ourvula (Schrad.) Nees. Tufted perennial, 60 to 120 cm tall; 

 blades elongate, subin volute with long flexuous setaceous tips; panicle 20 to 30 

 cm long, loose; spikelets dark olivaceous. 91 — Occasionally cultivated for 

 ornament. South Africa. 



13. CATABROSA Beauv. 



Spikelets mostly 2-flowered, the florets rather distant, the rachilla 

 disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes 

 unequal, shorter than the lower floret, flat, nerveless, irregularly 

 toothed at the broad truncate apex; lemmas broad, prominently 

 3-nerved, the nerves parallel, the broad apex scarious; palea about as 

 long as the lemma, broad, scarious at the apex. Aquatic perennials, 



