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6.” Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Link; Vign., Lut. Malpighia 18: 386. 
1904. 
STINKGRASS. 
Poa cilianensis All., Fl. Pedem. 2: 246. 1785. Europe. 
Eragrostis major Host, Icon. Gram. Austr. 4: 14. pl. 24. 1809. 
Europe. 
Eragrostis megastachya Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 187. 1827. Europe. 
Culms erect or spreading; panicles rather 
compact, 2 to 10 cm long, greenish or whit- 
ish, the spikelets many-flowered, larger 
than in the other annual species; spikelets 
5 to 15 mm long, 3 mm wide, 10- to 
40-flowered, the florets closely imbricate; 
pedicels and keels of the acute glumes and 
lemmas sparingly glandular; lemmas thin, 
the lateral nerves prominent (fig. 16). 
A common weed in the United States; 
rare in the West Indies. 
Bermupa: Collins 149. 
Cusa: Habana, Léon 8826. 
7. Eragrostis glomerata (Walt.) L. H. 
Dewey, Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 
2: 548. 1894. 
Poa glomerata Walt., Fl.Carol.80. 1788. 
South Carolina. 
Poa conferta Ell., Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 
158. 1816. South Carolina. 
Eragrostis conferta Trin., Mém. Acad. 
St. Pétersb. VI. Math. Phys. Nat. 1: 
409. 1830. 
Robust annual, sometimes as much as 
2m tall and appearing like a perennial, 
freely branching, the branches sometimes 
fascicled; blades elongate; panicles as 
much as 40 cm long, narrowly contracted, 
densely flowered, the spikelets about 2mm 
long, 4- to 6-flowered, the lemmas scarcely 
1 mm long (fig. 17). 
Moist low ground, southeastern United 
States to Uruguay. In the West Indies 
known only from Trinidad. 
TRINIDAD: O’Meara Savanna, Britton 
2492. LaBrea, Broadway 4979. Point-a- 
Pierre, Broadway 4940, 4941. San Fer- 
nando, Hitchcock 10110 (Amer. Gr. Nat. 
Herb. 690). Port-of-Spain, Hitchcock 
10319. St.Joseph, Hitchcock 10024. With- 
out locality, Bot. Gard. Herb. 3366. 
8. Eragrostis pilosa (L.) Beauv., Ess 
Agrost. 162. 1812. 
INDIA LOVEGRASS. 
Poa pilosa L., Sp. Pl.68. 1753. Europe 
Weedy annual; culms slender, erect or 
ascending from a decumbent base, 10 to 50 
FIGURE 17.—EHragrostis glomerata. 
Panicle, X 4; spikelet and floret, 
X 10 (Eggert). 
