. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 190 GRAMINEAE. Vol. Moist in North i. Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv. Bearded Short-husk. Fig. 454. Muhlenbergia erecta Schreb. Besch. Gras. 2: 139. pi. 50. 1772-9. Brachyelytrum erectum Beauv. Agrost. 155. 1812. Brachyelytrum aristatum R. & S. Syst. 2: 413. 1817. Brachyelytrum aristatum var. Engelmanni A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 6i4- 1867. Culms i°-3°
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 190 GRAMINEAE. Vol. Moist in North i. Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv. Bearded Short-husk. Fig. 454. Muhlenbergia erecta Schreb. Besch. Gras. 2: 139. pi. 50. 1772-9. Brachyelytrum erectum Beauv. Agrost. 155. 1812. Brachyelytrum aristatum R. & S. Syst. 2: 413. 1817. Brachyelytrum aristatum var. Engelmanni A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 6i4- 1867. Culms i°-3° tall, erect, slender, simple, smooth or rough, pubescent at and near the nodes. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, scabrous toward the apex, more or less villous especially at the throat; ligule about I" long, irregularly truncate; leaves 2-5' long, 3"-9" wide, acuminate at both ends, scabrous; panicle 2-6' in length, slender, branches 1-3' long, erect or appressed; outer scales of the spikelet un- equal, the upper less than one-third as long as the flowering scale, the lower minute or wanting; third scale, exclusive of the awn, 4V-6" long, 5-nerved, scabrous, especially on the midnerve, the awn erect, 9"-i2" long; rachilla produced beyond the flower about half the length of the third scale and lying in the groove of the palet. places, Newfoundland to Minnesota, south to Georgia and Kansas. Ascends to 5000 ft. Carolina. July-Aug. 36. HELEOCHLOA Host, Gram, i: 23. pi. 29, 30. 1801. [Crypsis Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 166. 1791. Not Ait. 1789.] Perennial tufted grasses with flat leaves and spicate or paniculate inflorescence. Spike- lets i-flowered. Scales 3; the 2 outer empty, somewhat unequal, membranous, acute, ciliate- keeled; the third scale similar, a little longer; palet shorter, hyaline, 2-nerved. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, free, loosely enclosed in the scale. [Greek, signifying meadow-grass.] About 8 species,
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