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2. Stems extensively creeping; plants diecious, annual. E. hypnoides. 
2, Stems usually decumbent at the base and generally much branched; flowers 
bisporangiate; annuals. 3 
3. Spikelets nearly or quite ]4, in. wide; plants with very strong odor. E. major. 
3. Spikelets tV in. wide or less. 4 
4. Lemmas usually dull-purple or green, the lateral nerves very prominent; 
spikelets about tV in. wide; outer empty glume about ^ as long as the 
inner. E. purshii 
4. Lemmas usually bright purplish, the lateral nerves faint or wanting; spikelets 
less than tV in. wide; outer empty glume ^2 as long as the inner. E.pilosa. 
5. Pedicels and branches of the panicle short; stems branched above the base. 
E. frankii. 
5. Pedicels and branches of the panicle long and capillary; stems branched only 
at the base. E. capillaris. 
1. Eragrostis pectinacea (jMx.) Steud. Purple Love-grass. An 
erect or ascending, perennial grass with a rigid stem, 1-2^ ft. high, 
from a short stout rhizome, with over-lapping sheaths, sparingly 
villous and densely bearded at the throat. Panicle purple or purplish, 
included at the base at least at hrst, its widely spreading or redexed 
branches strongly bearded at the base; spikelets 5-12-tIowered, on 
stiff pedicels; lemma acute, minutely scabrous, its lateral nerves 
prominent. 
In dry sandy soil. July-September. Lake, Cuyahoga, Erie, 
Auglaize. 
2. Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) B. S. P. Creeping Love-grass. 
An annual grass with an extensively creeping stem sending up 
panicle-bearing branches, ft. high. Panicles nearly simple, 
sometimes nearly capitate. Spikelets 10-35-flowered,. 1:he flowers 
bisporangiate, staminate, or carpellate; lemma acuminate its lateral 
nerves prominent. 
In sandy or gravelly soil along shores and ditches. August, Sep¬ 
tember. Rather general; no specimens from the central eastern 
counties. 
3. Eragrostis major Host. Strong-scented Love-grass. A beau¬ 
tiful erect or ascending or occasionally prostrate grass with rather 
flaccid, freely branching stems, ^-4 ft. high or long, with a strong 
scent, and with greenish-lead-colored, rather densely flowered 
panicles. Spikelets 10-40-flowered, the flowers closely imbricated; 
pedicels and keels of the empty glumes sparingly glandular; lemma 
thin, obtuse, scabrous, the lateral nerves prominent. 
A common weed in cultivated fields and waste places. Also 
called stink-grass. July-September. Naturalized from Europe. 
General. 
4. Eragrostis purshii Schrad. Pursh’s Love-grass. An annual 
tufted grass, usually decumbent at the base and much branched, 
the stems ft. long. Panicle open, its branches spreading. 
