. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. 234 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS MUHLENBERGIA DIFFUSA, (Nimble Will). Culms diffusely branched, 8-18 inches high, panicles contracted, slender, glumes extremely minute awns once or twice longer than the palet. August—September. Very abundant. MUHLENBERGIA GLOMERATA, Panicle oblong, 2-3 inches long, contracted into an interrupted glomer- ate spike, long peduncled, the branches sesBile, glumes awued. August. MUHLENBERGIA MEXICANA, Trin. -- {Mexican Muhlen- bergia). Culms ascending, much branched,
. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. 234 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS MUHLENBERGIA DIFFUSA, (Nimble Will). Culms diffusely branched, 8-18 inches high, panicles contracted, slender, glumes extremely minute awns once or twice longer than the palet. August—September. Very abundant. MUHLENBERGIA GLOMERATA, Panicle oblong, 2-3 inches long, contracted into an interrupted glomer- ate spike, long peduncled, the branches sesBile, glumes awued. August. MUHLENBERGIA MEXICANA, Trin. -- {Mexican Muhlen- bergia). Culms ascending, much branched, 2-3 feet high, panicles lateral and terminal often included at the base, contracted, the branches densely «piked, clustered, linear. Glumes awnless sharp pointed. With the former along the borders of creeks and river banks. Abundant. MUHLENBERGIA SYLVATICA, Torr & Gray. — (Wood Muhlenbergia). Culms ascending, much branched and diffusely spreading 2-4 feet long; contracted panicles densely many flowered; glumes almost equal, bristle pointed, nearly as long as the lower palet, which bears an awn twice or thrice the length of the spikelet. "Woods, common. August— September. All the species of Muhlenbergia are but a very poor forage, and while other, things are plenty, they are not sought after. Yet as all of them possess the quality of staying green until late in the winter, they are of great help for stook beating about on cold and dreary winter days, In cultivated grounds they are a great nuisance, their far-reaching, creeping roots being nearly unexterminable. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br--(Drop-seed grass.) Spikelets one, rarely two-flowered in a contracted or open panicle, the palets longer than the unequal glumes. Stamens, 2-3. Grain a globular utricle (hyaline or rather coriaceous), containing a loose seed which drop out very readily at maturity. A spike of Sporobolus magnified, (1); the same with the flower open, the palets raised above the glumes, (2); and the fruit
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