. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 400 Order 155.—GRAMINE^.. 42. EATONIA, Raf. Spkl. mostly 2-flowered, numerous, panicled, silvery. Glumes unlike, the lower linear, 1-veined, the upper broadly obovate, rounded and 3-veined on the back. Pales obtuse, chartaceous, awnless. Grain oblong. y Deli- cate grasses with simple culms. 1 Fi. obtusata (Mx.) Panicle narrow, dense, 3—
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 400 Order 155.—GRAMINE^.. 42. EATONIA, Raf. Spkl. mostly 2-flowered, numerous, panicled, silvery. Glumes unlike, the lower linear, 1-veined, the upper broadly obovate, rounded and 3-veined on the back. Pales obtuse, chartaceous, awnless. Grain oblong. y Deli- cate grasses with simple culms. 1 Fi. obtusata (Mx.) Panicle narrow, dense, 3—5'by J—1'; branches short, ap- pressed ; epkl. (a, b) 1}" long, tumid ; pales (c) scarious at tip, a little longer than the very obtuse upper glume. Dry. Penn. to Wis., and S. June, July. 2f. 2 E. Pennsylvanlea (DC.) Panicle 5—10', slender, open and loose; spkl. li"; uppergl. abruptly short-pointed, or obtuse; upper flower exserted half its length. Shady rocks and meadows. Elegant. Summer. 2f. 43. MELICA, L. Melic G. Glumes unequal, ob- tuse, 2-5-flowered. Fls. exserted, the upper incomplete. Pales truncate, veiny as well as the glumes. Grain free. y Lvs. flat; spkl. pedicellate, in a subsimple panicle. -'~g -^ OT. inutica Walt. Culm .3—4f; lvs. linear, flat; pan. few-flwd., inclined to one side; spkl. (e) 4—6" long, with 2 fertile fls., and the third upper one contorted; pales (/) unequal, veined. Penn. to Wis., and S. 44. ERAGROSTIS, Beauv. Spkl. 2-oo -flwd., membranous. Lower pale carinate, 3-veined, never webby at base, upper pale persistent on the flexuous racliis after the free grain and lower pale have fallen. Culm simple or branched. Leaves often rolled, bearded at the throat. Panicle with liairj' axils. § Culms branched, prostrate; spikelets sub-sessile No. 1 § Culms branched, ascending; panicles 1—3 Nos. 2—7' § Culms simple, erect, shorter than its loose .Nos. 8—11 1 E. reptans Nees. Culms creeping and rooting, (I—1
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