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9. Eragrostis neomexicana Vasey, Contrib. U. S. Natl. Herbarium 2: 



542. 1894. 

 Coconino, Yavapai, Cochise. Santa Cruz, and Pima Counties, wet 

 ground, fields, and waste places, mostly 4,000 to 5,500 feet, July to 

 September. Oklahoma to Arizona and Mexico. 



10. Eragrostis mexicana (Hornem.) Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 190. 1827. 



Poa mexicana Hornem., Hortus Hafn. 2: 953. 1815. 



Coconino and Mohave Counties, south to Cochise, Santa Cruz, and 

 Pima Counties, mostly 4.000 to 7.000 feet, fields and waste places. 

 Texas to Arizona, and southward through Mexico. 



11. Eragrostis obtusiflora (Fourn.) Scribn., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. 



Agrost. Bui. 8: 10. 1897. 



Common locally in saline soil around Willcox and in the Chiricahua 

 Mountains (Cochise County), about 4.000 feet, April to September. 

 Southern New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. 



12. Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) Steud., Xom. Bot. ed. 2, 1: 564. 



1840. 



Poa spectabilis Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 81. 1814. 



Coconino and Pima Counties, sandy or rocky soil, at medium alti- 

 tudes, September to October. Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida 

 and Arizona. 



13. Eragrostis curvula (Sehrad.) Xees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 397. 1841. 



Poa curvula Sehrad., Gottingen Gelehrte Anz. 3: 2073. 1821. 



Crook National Forest (Purchase 283), Pinal Mountains, Gila 

 County, 7,500 feet (Peebles 14098). Introduced from Africa, grown 

 for ornament and forage in several localities in the southern part of 

 the United States. 



14. Eragrostis intermedia Hitchc, Wash. Acad. Sci. Jour. 23: 450. 



1933. 



Yavapai, Gila, Pinal, Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz Counties, 

 mostly 4,000 to 5,000 feet, rocky lulls and canyons, June to September. 

 Missouri to Louisiana and Arizona. 



7. CATABROSA. Brookgrass 



Aquatic perennials; spikelets brown, 2 -flowered, the florets distant; 

 glumes nerveless, irregularly toothed; lemmas broad, the apex scari- 

 ous; palea as long as the lemma. 



1. Catabrosa aquatica (L.) Beauv., Ess. Agrost, 97, 149, 157. 1812. 



Aim aquatica L., Sp. PL 64. 1753. 



Without locality (E. Palmer in 1877), mountain meadows, around 

 springs, and along streams, July to September. Newfoundland to 

 Alberta, south to Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon; Eurasia. 



8. REDFIELDIA. Blowout grass 



Perennial, with extensive rhizomes; panicle large, the branches 

 capillary; spikelets 3- or 4-f lowered, the florets closely imbricate; 

 glumes acuminate, 1 -nerved; palea as long as the lemma. 



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