. 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. i. Erioneuron pilosum (Buckley) Nash. Sharp-scaled Erioneuron. Fig. 564. Uralepis pilosa Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1862 : 04. 1863. Sieglingia pilosa Nash, in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3 : 504. 1898. Erioneuron pilosum Nash, in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 144. 1903. Culms tufted, 2i'-i2' tall, smooth and glabrous, the sterile shoots 4' tall or less. Sheath
. 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. i. Erioneuron pilosum (Buckley) Nash. Sharp-scaled Erioneuron. Fig. 564. Uralepis pilosa Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1862 : 04. 1863. Sieglingia pilosa Nash, in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3 : 504. 1898. Erioneuron pilosum Nash, in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 144. 1903. Culms tufted, 2i'-i2' tall, smooth and glabrous, the sterile shoots 4' tall or less. Sheaths smooth, a tuft of hairs on each side at the apex, much shorter than the internodes; ligule a ring of short hairs; blades strict or curved, thick, linear, obtuse, i-nerved, the margins white, serrulate, i¥ long or less, less than 1" wide, folded, at least when dry, pubescent with long hairs, especially be- neath; panicle almost racemose, long-exserted, i'-ii' long; spikelets 3-10, crowded, 8-12-flowered; empty scales acuminate, I-nerved; flowering scales 3"—3J" long, acumi- nate, 3-nerved, the midnerve generally excurrent in a short point, all the nerves (the lateral at the top and bottom, the midnerve below the middle), the callus, and the base pilose. Dry soil, Kansas to Nevada and Mexico. April-Sept. 75. TRIPLASIS Beauv. Agrost. 81. 1812. Grasses with narrow, flat or involute leaf-blades and contracted or open panicles. Spike- lets shortly pedicelled, 2-6-flowered, the glabrous rachilla articulated between the flowers, the internodes very long. Scales 4-8, membranous, the lower 2 empty, keeled, the flowering scales dorsally rounded at the base, 3-nervedj the lateral nerves pilose, deeply 2-lobed at the apex, long-awned between the lobes, the callus long and subulate, pubescent on the outer surface; palet 2-keeled, the keels long-ciliate. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain free, enclosed in the scale. [Greek, referring to the 3 divisi
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