. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 174 BULLETIN 112, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. bearing at the base a tuft of long hairs, bifid at the apex, the mid- nerve extending as a short awn. Our species is a low, tufted perennial, with capillary blades and slender solitary spikes, the spikelets somewhat distant. Species about nine. East Indian and African except one American. Type species: Tnpogon bromoides Roth. Tripogon Roth;. Roem. and Schiilt., Syst. Veg. 2: 600. 1817. Only one species described. The American species, Tripogon spica- tus (Nees) Ekman {
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 174 BULLETIN 112, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. bearing at the base a tuft of long hairs, bifid at the apex, the mid- nerve extending as a short awn. Our species is a low, tufted perennial, with capillary blades and slender solitary spikes, the spikelets somewhat distant. Species about nine. East Indian and African except one American. Type species: Tnpogon bromoides Roth. Tripogon Roth;. Roem. and Schiilt., Syst. Veg. 2: 600. 1817. Only one species described. The American species, Tripogon spica- tus (Nees) Ekman {Leptochloa spicata Scribn.) (fig. 102), is found on sterile hills in Texas and northern Mexico, Cuba, and South America. It is of no im- portance agriculturally. 84. Eleusine Gaertu. Spikelets few to several flowered, compressed, sessile and closely im- bricate, in two rows along one side of a rather broad rachis, the latter not prolonged beyond the spikelets; rachilla disarticulating above the. 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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