. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. Introduced into California from eastern Asia. 36. Fig. 11.—Ercmochloa leeraioides. A, spikelet, X 10; 6, c, florets. (Scribner.) 13. (92). Teachypogon Nees, Agrost. Bras. 341 (1829), in part. Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs at tlie nodes of the rachis of a simple 1-sided spike, a subscssile staminate awnless s])ikelet and an awned pedicelled, pistillate or
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. Introduced into California from eastern Asia. 36. Fig. 11.—Ercmochloa leeraioides. A, spikelet, X 10; 6, c, florets. (Scribner.) 13. (92). Teachypogon Nees, Agrost. Bras. 341 (1829), in part. Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs at tlie nodes of the rachis of a simple 1-sided spike, a subscssile staminate awnless s])ikelet and an awned pedicelled, pistillate or perfect spikelet. Empty glumes 3-4, the outer. 1 firm, awnless, enclosing the others, second nar- rower but similar, third empty, very delicately hyaline, narrow, very small ; terminal glume in the sessile spikelet delicately hya- line, awnless, in the pedicelled spikelet hyaline below, above bearing a long twisted awn; palca very small or 0. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. CJniin oblong, included, not adlicrent. Tall tufted perennial grasses, with long narrow, flat or involute leaf-blades. Spikes solitary or 2 or 3 and sessile at the apex of the peduncles. Spikelets slightly imbricated and appressed to the rachis. Nearly related to Jlcfcro/tni/d)/. Found in troj^ical America and in Africa and Australia. Anderss. in (Efvcrs. Vet. Akad. Stocikh. 1857, enumerates 11 species, I of which is African and the rest peculiar to tropical and subtropical Amenca. including Brazil and Mexico. Ilackel places them all in one species with many subspecies and varieties. 1. T. polymorphus Hack., Mart, et Eicld. Fl. Bras., 2, pars. 3 : 2(13 (1,SS3). A sleuder erect perennial grass, OO-IH) cm. high, hairy at the nodes. Sheaths terete, longer than the inter nodes, more or less pubescH'iit; ligule firm; blades narrow, ilat or convolute, glaucous, rigid, tlio lower 20 cm. long, the upper 6-8 (; Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhan
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