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GENUS 18. ELEUSINE. Gartner. 
[From Elemin, the name of an ancient town where Ceres the goddess of harvests was 
worshipped.] 
Spikelets two to six-flowered, closely imbricate-spiked, on one side of a 
flattish racliis ; the spikes digitate clustered ; glumes membranaceous, 
awnless, and pointless; the lower ovate, keeled, larger than the upper;, 
stamens three; pericarp thin, free from the oval wrinkled seed. 
48. Eleusine Indica. Gcertner. 
Syn. —Cynosurus Indicus, Linn. 
Dog’s-tail or wire-grass, yard-grass. Called crow’s-foot at the South. 
Culms branched at the base, ascending flattened; spikes 2 to 5, greenish; 
spikelets about five-flowered. Annual; flowers through the season ; 
culms 8 to 15 inches long. About yards, &c. Introduced Ohio, Illinois. 
In the latter part of summer it makes a fine green carpeting for yards 
and lanes that had been previously naked and muddy ; cattle and hogs 
are fond of feeding on it.— Darlington. 
In Mississippi it is used as a pasture grass, and for hay. 
GENUS 19. LEPTOCHLOA. JBeauvois. 
[From leptos slender and chloa grass, the spikes being long and slender.] 
Spikelets 3 to many-flowered, loosely spiked on one side of a long fili¬ 
form racliis; spikes racemed ; glumes membranaceous, keeled, often awl- 
pointed, the upper one somewhat larger; lower palea three-nerved, larger 
than the upper ; stamens two or three. 
49. Leptochloa Mucronata. Kunth. 
Syn. —Oxydenia attenuata, Nutt. Eleusine mucronata, Mx. 
Sheaths hairy ; spikes numerous, in a long panicle-like raceme ; spike¬ 
lets small; glumes more or less mucronate, nearly equaling or exceeding 
the three or four-awnless flowers. Annual; flowers in August; culms 
2 to 3 feet high. Illinois ; at North Bend, Ohio, Dr. C. W. Short. 
50. Leptochloa Fascicularis. Gray. 
Syn. —Festuca fascicularis, Lam, F. polystachya, Michx. Diplachne 
fascicularis, Beauv. 
