. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14, pi. 24. 1809. One species is described, The genus Eragrostis was first diagnosed by Beauvois/ the type being Eragrostis eragrostis, based on Poa eragrostis L. Erochloe Raf., Neogenyt. 4, 1825; Bull. Bot. Seringe 1: 221. 1830. Rafinesque first proposed the name in 1825 but mentioned no species. In 1830 he gives the name to " Poa spectabilis seu amabilis," {Eragrostis pectina- cea and E. amabilis, respec- tively, not the same species, as Rafinesque implies). Acamptoclados Nash, in Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 14, pi. 24. 1809. One species is described, The genus Eragrostis was first diagnosed by Beauvois/ the type being Eragrostis eragrostis, based on Poa eragrostis L. Erochloe Raf., Neogenyt. 4, 1825; Bull. Bot. Seringe 1: 221. 1830. Rafinesque first proposed the name in 1825 but mentioned no species. In 1830 he gives the name to " Poa spectabilis seu amabilis," {Eragrostis pectina- cea and E. amabilis, respec- tively, not the same species, as Rafinesque implies). Acamptoclados Nash, in Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S. 139. 1903. The type, indicated on page 1327, is Eragrostis sessilispica Buckl., the only species described. The genus is placed in Chloridese on account of the sessile spikelets distant along the panicle branches. Neeragrostis Bush, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 13: 178. 1903. The type species is indicated, Poa weigeltiana Reichenb. The genus includes also N. hypnoides (Eragrostis hypnoides). Erosion Lunell, Amer. Midi. Nat. 4: 221. 1915. Proposed for " Eragrostis Beauv. . The name to be avoided, as built on another grass ;. Fig. 14.—QuakiBg grass, Briza media. Plant, X i ; spikelet and floret, X 5. In many species the racliilla is continuous and does not disarticulate as in most species of the tribe Festuceae. The grain is free and falls with the lemma, leaving the palea upon the rachilla. To this group lEss. Agrost. 70, pi. 14, f. 11. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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