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part, the lower axils pilose; spikelets, 6- to 12-flowered, 4 to 7 mm 
long, about 1.5 mm wide (fig. 19). 
Open ground, fields, and waste places, West Indies to Brazil. Com- 
mon in the Greater Antilles and Trinidad; less common in the Lesser 
Antilles. In Cuba called ‘‘ilusién.”’ 
Grisebach ° refers this species to £. 
poaeoides Beauv. 
11. Eragrostis barrelieri Daveau, in 
Morot., Jour. Bot. 8: 289. 1894. 
Europe. 
Annual; culms erect or decumbent, 20 
to 50cm tall; blades flat, rather short, 
2 to 4 mm wide; panicle erect, open but 
narrow, 8 to 15 cm long, the branches 
Hae enduie Ob sally spreading, tew-low- | Cus 19 Eragrostis tephrcer hae 
ered, spikelet-bearing nearly to base, the 5930). ” 
axils glabrous; spikelets linear, usually 
12- to 15-flowered, mostly about 1 cm long and 1.5 mm wide; lemmas 
2 mm long or slightly longer (fig. 20). 
Waste places, Texas to California; Hispaniola and St. Croix; in- 
troduced from Europe. 
Haitr: Anse-a-Pitre, Ekman H 6696. Cape St. Mare, Ekman H 
6639. 
Dominican Repusiic: Guayubin, Abbott 877. 
VirGin Istanps: St.Croix, Thompson 
5,302,996 ; Eggersin 1876 ; Ricksecker 221. 
12. Eragrostis bahamensis Hitchc., 
Mo. Bot. Gard. Rept. 4: 149. 
f 
y 1893. Inagua, Hitchcock. 
} Perennial; culms tufted, simple, 
N/ #4 spreading, wiry, usually about 15 cm 
Lae tall; blades slender, firm, involute, a 
\f ZA woolly tuft of hairs at the summit of 
Sy) BY Z254 thesheath; spikelets mostly in a raceme 
SS, ee on the upper half of theculm, appressed, 
AN : — rather distant, short-pedicellate, 6 
ae G yaee~ to 8 mm long, firm and hard, 10- to 
. ae 20-flowered. 
SS 
og 
Rocky soil, Bahamas. 
BaHamMas: Rum Cay, Brace 3993. 
Little Inagua, Nash and Taylor 1217. 
FIGURE 20.—Eragrostis barrelieri. Panicle, Inagua, Hitchcock ma ts30. The specie 
XI: floret. X 10 (Hitchcock 5230). bas been collected on other islands of 
the group. 
13. Eragrostis cubensis Hitche., Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 243. 
1909. Isla de Pinos, Curtiss 420. 
Perennial, culms slender, wiry, erect or spreading, tufted from a 
hard knotty base, mostly 10 to 20 cm, sometimes 30 cm, tall; blades 
narrow or filiform, mostly involute, erect; panicles few-flowered, 2 to 
8 cm long, the few branches erect or ascending, the lower sometimes 
as much as 2 cm long, usually short and appressed; spikelets short 
§ Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 532. 1864, 
