. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 120 BULLETIlSr 112, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Pentamei-is Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 92, pi. IS, f. S. 1S12. P. thuarii is the type, as this is the single species mentioned and figured. This is a South African species and represents a groiip in which the lateral teeth of the lemmas are 2-awned. The group is considered to be generically distinct from Dan- thonia by Stapf.^ The name is taken up by Nelson and Macbride in place of Merathrepta Raf.^" Merathrepta Raf., Bull. Bot. Seringe 1: 221. 1830. The genus is desc
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 120 BULLETIlSr 112, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Pentamei-is Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 92, pi. IS, f. S. 1S12. P. thuarii is the type, as this is the single species mentioned and figured. This is a South African species and represents a groiip in which the lateral teeth of the lemmas are 2-awned. The group is considered to be generically distinct from Dan- thonia by Stapf.^ The name is taken up by Nelson and Macbride in place of Merathrepta Raf.^" Merathrepta Raf., Bull. Bot. Seringe 1: 221. 1830. The genus is described briefly and Avena spicata mentioned. This species is, therefore, the type. One species of Dantlionia, D. sjyicata (L.) Beauv. (fig. 63), is common on sterile liills and in dry, open woods in the Eastern States, where it is sometimes called poverty grass. It can be recognized, even when not in flower, by its small tufts of curly leaves. In the Western States the species are found in grass- land and contribute somewhat toward the forage value of the range, but usually they are not abundant. All our species pro- duce cleistogenes (enlarged fer- tile cleistogamous spikelets) in the lower sheaths,^ and the culms finally disarticulate at the nodes below 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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