. 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. 13. Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Smooth Creeping Love- grass. Fig. 584. Poa hypnoides Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 185. 1791. Eragrostis reptans Nees, Agrost. Bras. 514. 1829. Eragrostis hypoides Prel. Cat. N. Y. 69. 1888. Ne-eragrostis hypnoides Bush, Trans. St. Louis Acad. 13: 180. 1903. Culms i'-i8' long, extensively creep- ing, branched, smooth and gl
. 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. 13. Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Smooth Creeping Love- grass. Fig. 584. Poa hypnoides Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 185. 1791. Eragrostis reptans Nees, Agrost. Bras. 514. 1829. Eragrostis hypoides Prel. Cat. N. Y. 69. 1888. Ne-eragrostis hypnoides Bush, Trans. St. Louis Acad. 13: 180. 1903. Culms i'-i8' long, extensively creep- ing, branched, smooth and glabrous, the branches erect or ascending, i'-6' high. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, vil- lous at the summit; ligule a ring of short hairs; blades 2' long or less, i"-i" wide, flat, smooth beneath, rough above; spikelets dioecious, 10-35-flowered, 2"- 8" long; lower scales unequal, the first one-half to two-thirds as long as the second; flowering scales about ii" long, the lateral nerves prominent; scales of the pistillate flowers more acute than those of the staminate. On sandy or gravelly shores, Vermont and Ontario to Washington, south to Florida and Mexico. Also in tropical America. 14. Eragrostis Weigeltiana (Reichenb.) Bush. Hairy Creeping Love-grass. Fig- 585- Poa Weigeltiana Reichnb. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 1: 40. 1831. Poa capitata Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 5 : 146. 1837. Eragrostis capitata Nash, in Britt. Man. 1042. 1901. Ne-eragrostis Weigeltiana Bush, Trans. St. Louis Acad. 13: 178. 1903. E. Weigeltiana Bush, Trans. St. Louis Acad. 13 : 180. 1903. Plants dioecious. Culms branching and creep- ing, rooting at the nodes which send up branches 2i'-4' tall; sheaths, at least those on the branches, pubescent; blades spreading or as- cending, i-ii' long, ii" wide or less, flat, lan- ceolate, pubescent; panicle S'-iJ' long, nearly or quite as broad, oval; spikelets crowded, clustered, pubescent, 12-30-flowered, 3"
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