. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 148 GRAMINEAE (GEASS FAMILY) 2. L. fasciculiris (Tjam.) Gray. Smooth; leaves longer than the erect oi geniculate-decumbent and branching culms, the upper sheathing the base of the panicle; spikes 8-12 cm. long; spikelets slightly pediceled, l-W-flowered, the florets much longer than the lanceolate glumes; lemmas hairy-margined toward the base, with 2 small lateral teeth and a short awn in the cleft of the apex. (Diplachne Beauv.; 1). acuminata a
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 148 GRAMINEAE (GEASS FAMILY) 2. L. fasciculiris (Tjam.) Gray. Smooth; leaves longer than the erect oi geniculate-decumbent and branching culms, the upper sheathing the base of the panicle; spikes 8-12 cm. long; spikelets slightly pediceled, l-W-flowered, the florets much longer than the lanceolate glumes; lemmas hairy-margined toward the base, with 2 small lateral teeth and a short awn in the cleft of the apex. (Diplachne Beauv.; 1). acuminata and procumbens Kash.) — Brackish meadows, from Mass. southw. along the coast; and from 111. southw. along the Miss. R. Aug., Sept. &n. BtrCHLOE Engelm. Buffalo Grass Spikelets unisexual ; plants monoecious or dioecious ; staminate spikelets 2-3- flowered, sessile in 2 rows along the short 1-sided spikes; glumes unequal, obtuse; lemmas larger, 3-nerved ; palea a little shorter than the lemma; pistillate spikelets 1-flowered, in nearly capitate 1-sided spikes which are scarcely exserted from the broad sheaths of the upper leaves ; glumes indurated, trifid at the apex, united at base and resembling an involucre ; lemma narrow, hyaline, inclosing the 2-nerved palea ; grain free within the hardened glumes. — A creep- ing or stolon if erous perennial with narrow flat leaves, and dissimilar staminate and pistillate spikelets home on the same or on distinct plants. (Name strongly con- 144. B. dactyloi(?ee. tracted from §oi^a\ot, buffalo, and xXi'7, grass.) (J and 9 inflorescence X Va. ]. g. dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm. Culms of the cfSpikelet and floret (above) staminate inflorescence 1-3 dm. high; the spikes long- ^1'., , i i. « exserted; culms of pistillate inflorescence low, much *a„roattX"Tx,r'' '^'"''^^^^ ^y tl^e l^^^'^^; «l'«atl^« overlapping; blades 2 mm. wide or less; staminate spikes 2 or 3, 6-12 mm. long ; cluster of pistillate spikelets ovoid, 6 mm. lo
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