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21. Nothoholcus Nash. Velvet-grass. 
Perennial grasses with densely flowered terminal panicles. 
Spikelets 2-flowered articulated below the empty glumes, the lower 
flower perfect, the upper staminate; empty glumes membranous, 
keeled, the outer 1-nerved, the inner 3-nerved and often short-awned; 
lemmas chartaceous, that of the upper flower bearing a bent awn; 
palet narrow, 2-keeled, grain free, enclosed in the glumes. 
1. Nothoholcus lanatus (L.) Nash. Velvet-grass. A light 
green, perennial, densely and softly pubescent grass with erect sim¬ 
ple stems, often decumbent at the base, 1-3 ft. high, and a narrow 
purplish panicle. Spikelets nearly as broad as long; lemmas ciliate 
at the apex, that of the second flower with a hook-like awn. 
In flelds, meadows and waste places. June-August. Lake, 
Trumbull, Cuyahoga, Lorain, Erie, V ayne, Fairfield. From Europe. 
