136 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
FIGURE 84.—Chloris virgata. Plant, X 4%; glumes and florets, X 5 (Tracy 8173). 
1. Trichloris pluriflora Fourn., Mex. Pl. 2: 142. 1886. 
Culms 50 to 100 cm tall; blades 5 to 10 mm wide; inflorescence 
somewhat loose and feathery; spikes 7 to 15 cm long; fertile lemma 
about 4 mm long, the others successively shorter, the middle awns of 
all 5 to 15 mm long, somewhat spreading, the lateral awns short or 
obsolete (fig. 85). 
