GRASSES OF OHIO 
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31. Capriola Adans. Bermuda-grass. 
Low diffusely branched, extensively creeping perennials, with 
flat leaf blades and slender spikes digitately arranged at the apex 
of upright branches. Spikelets 1-flowered, laterally compressed, ses¬ 
sile, in two rows along one side of a slender continuous axis; empty 
glumes unequal, narrow, keeled; lemma broad, boat-shaped, ciliate 
on the keel; palet 2-keeled, hyaline; grain free. 
1. Capriola dactylon (L.) Ktz. Bermuda-grass. A glabrous 
grass with flattened, wiry, erect stems, ^-1 ft. high, from long creep¬ 
ing branched stolons, and a digitate inflorescence of 4-5 spikes. 
Spikelets imbricated; lemma broad and boat-shaped, longer than the 
empty glumes. 
In flelds and waste places. Cultivated in the south for pasture. 
July-Sept. No specimens. From Europe. 
32. Eleusine Gaertn. Yard-grass 
Coarse tufted annuals or perennials with stout unilaterial spikes, 
digitate or approximate at the summit of the stem. Spikelets sev¬ 
eral-flowered, sessile, closely imbricated in two rows along one side 
of a continuous rachis which is not extended beyond them; empty 
glumes unequal, shorter than the flowers, scabrous on the keel; lemma 
with a thickened 5-ribbed keel; palet shorter, acute, the narrowly 
winged keels distant; grain black, loosely enclosed in the lemma 
and palet. 
1. Eleusine mdica (L.) Gaert. Yard-grass. A glabrous tufted 
grass with flattened erect or decumbent stems, ^-2 ft. high, and an 
inflorescence of 2-10, more or less digitately arranged spikes. Spike¬ 
lets appressed, 3-6-flbwered; lemma with a thickened 5-ribbed keel. 
A weed. 
In yards, sidewalks, and waste places. June-September. Gen¬ 
eral. Naturalized. 
33. Atheropogon Muhl. Grama-grass. 
Perennial grasses with solid stems, narrow flat leaf-blades, and 
an inflorescence composed of numerous, short, scattered, one-sided, 
spreading or reflex spikes. Spikelets 1-flowered, crowded in two 
rows; empty glumes unequal, acute, narrow, keeled; lemma 3- 
toothed; palet narrow, hyaline, 2-toothed; grain free, enclosed in 
the flowering glumes. 
1. Atheropogon curtipendulus (Mx.) Fourn. Tall Grama- 
grass. A gray-green grass with simple, solid, erect stems, 1-4^^ ft. 
high and a long slender raceme of 15-20 spreading or reflexed spikes 
