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Roadsides and waste places, Bermuda; native of the Old World, 
widely introduced in America. 
Brermupa: Harshberger in 1905; Brown 714. 
2. Polypogon lutosus (Poir.) Hitche., U.S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 772: 138. 
1920. DitcH POLYPOGON. 
Agrostis littorahs With., Bot. Arr. Veg. Brit. ed. 3. 2: 129. pl. 23. 
1796. Not A. hittorals Lam., 1791. England. 
Polypogon littoralis J. E. Smith, Comp. Fl. Brit. 13. 1800. 
Agrostis lutosa Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 1: 
249. 1810. Europe. Shi 
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Perennial; culms geniculate at base, 30 to 80 NS GZ 
cm tall; blades flat; panicle oblong, 5 to 15 SNYOZZ | i) 
cm long, more or less interrupted or lobed; NG) yy 
spikelets about 2 mm long, the awns 2 to 3 mm Ven VY, 
long (fig. 43). Wig Cp 
Ditches and waste places, Bermuda; native \ NG \AA 
of Europe, widely introduced in the warmer AN IZ 
parts of America. NV Aa 
Brermupa: Brown 698; Collins 138. 
Speer OIMots Sp bl 59s 1753 
Spikelets 1-flowered, laterally compressed, 
disarticulating above the glumes; glumes equal, 
membranaceous, keeled, abruptly mucronate 
or awned; lemma shorter than the glumes,  Ficurr 43.—Polypogon lutosus. 
hyaline, broadly truncate, 3- to 5-nerved; palea aie Taine tcao oAG8): 
narrow, nearly as long as the lemma. Annuals 
or perennials, with erect culms, flat blades, and dense, cylindric 
panicles. 
1. Phieum pratense L., Sp. Pl. 59. 1753. Europe. TIMOTHY. 
Culms tufted, erect, 50 to 100 cm tall; blades flat, 3 to 5 mm wide; 
panicle cylindric, dense, spikelike, mostly 5 to 10 em long; spikelets 
2 to 3 mm long (fig. 44). 
Commonly cultivated as a meadow grass in temperate regions, but 
not grown in the West Indies. Established on the summit of Blue 
Mountain Peak around the rest house. 
JAMAICA: Blue Mountain Peak, Harris 12665; Hitchcock 9374. 
38. MUHLENBERGIA Schreb.; Gmel., Syst. Nat. 2: 171. 1791 
Spikelets 1-flowered, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes; 
glumes usually shorter than the lemma, obtuse to acuminate or 
awned, the first sometimes small, rarely obsolete; lemma firm- 
membranaceous, 3- to 5- nerved, with a very short, usually minutely 
pilose callus, the apex acute, extending into a straight or flexuous 
awn, or sometimes only mucronate. Species of the West Indies 
perennial. 
Panicle diffuse; blades involute, elongate__.____________-- 1. M. caPimLuaRIs. 
Panicle narrow, the branches appressed or ascending; blades flat, mostly less 
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