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em 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 axils; spikelets gray to nearly black, linear, 
scarcely compressed, 3- to 9-flowered, 3 to 5 mm long, about 1 mm 
wide, the pedicels spreading, mostly longer than the spikelets; glumes 
acute, the first a little less than, the second a little more than, 1 mm 
long; lemmas loosely imbricate, 
the rachilla more or less exposed, 
rounded on the back, acute, 1.2 to 
1.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide from 
keel to margin, the nerves obscure; 
erain 0.6 mm long (fig. 18). 
Open grounds, fields, and waste 
places, warm and temperate re- 
gions of both hemispheres. The 
West Indian specimens referred to 
this species are the form with more 
FIGURE 18.—Eragrostis pilosa. Panicle, X 1; floret gre, slender, WSSU pannel 
“and palea, X 10 (Ruth 514). branches, apparently commoner in 
Asia and Africa than in Kurope. 
Nash ® doubtfully refers these specimens to Hragrostis purshit Schrad. 
“hroughout the West Indies at low altitudes. 
J. Eragrostis berteroniana (Schult.) Steud., Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 1: 
562. 1840. 
Megastachya berteroniana Schult., Mant. 2: 330. 1824. Santo 
Domingo. 
Poa berteroniana Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: 112. 1829. 
Annual; culms erect or usually decumbent at base, 10 to 20 cm tall 
or even as much as 30 cm; sheaths, at least the lower, sparsely papil- 
lose-pilose, densely pilose at the summit; blades narrow, mostly 
involute, sparsely pilose; panicles oblong, somewhat condensed, 5 to 
10 cm long, glabrous in the axils; spikelets short-pedicellate, ascend- 
ing, pale or purplish, 7 to 13 mm long, 15- to 30-flowered; lemmas 
ovate, 1.5 to 1.8 mm long. 
Open or rocky soil and dry thickets, Hispaniola. 
_ Harti: Jean Rabel, Leonard 12879, 12972, 13686; Hkman H 3617. 
Etang, Leonard 3560. Cabaret, Leonard 11832, 11835, 11867. 
Mole-St. Nicolas, Ekman H 4491. Fond Parisien, Leonard 4214. 
Morne-4-Cabrits, Ekman H 978. Plaine du Cul de Sac, Buch 2039. 
DomINIcAN Repustuic: Villa Vasquez, Ekman H 13129. Valverde, 
Ekman H 13097. 
10. Eragrostis tephrosanthos Schult., Mant. 2: 316. 1824. Mar- 
tinique. 
Annuals, rather soft and lax; culms branching at base, erect or 
decumbent-spreading, 5 to 20 cm tall, sometimes taller; blades flat, 
usually 5 to 10 cm long, 1 to 2 mm wide; panicles open, mostly 4 to 
10 cm long, about half as wide, the branches ascending or spreading, 
naked below, the spikelets appressed or ascending along the upper 
8 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 388. 1903. 
