. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ing woods ofoak and chestnut. The stemsare slender, and the looselyflowered panicles of narrow,long spikelets are usually ^^tinged with purple. Narrow Melic-grass. Me-lica mutica Walt. i|-3 ft. tall, slender, erect. Sheaths rough. Ligule i-2 long. Leaves ^-g long, i-5 wide, flat, roughish. Panicle 3-io long, narrow, branches few, not many-flow-ered. Spikelets 3- 5 long, nodding on slender pedicels and usually consisting of 2 perfect flowers. Rachilla pro-longed and
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ing woods ofoak and chestnut. The stemsare slender, and the looselyflowered panicles of narrow,long spikelets are usually ^^tinged with purple. Narrow Melic-grass. Me-lica mutica Walt. i|-3 ft. tall, slender, erect. Sheaths rough. Ligule i-2 long. Leaves ^-g long, i-5 wide, flat, roughish. Panicle 3-io long, narrow, branches few, not many-flow-ered. Spikelets 3- 5 long, nodding on slender pedicels and usually consisting of 2 perfect flowers. Rachilla pro-longed and bearing 2 or 3 small, twisted scales. Outer scales slightly unequal, very broad, acute or obtuse; flowering scales papery, broad, obtuse, roughish. Stamens soil and open woods. April to to Wisconsin, south to Florida and Texas. Purple Oat. Melica striata(Michx.) Hitchc. Perennial. Stem 1-2 ft. tall, slender, very short. Leaves i-7long, I -3 wide. Panicle 2-6 long, few-flowered, branches slender. Spikelets 3- 6-flowered, 8-i2 long, usually purple. Outer scales unequal, 182. I Narrow Melic-grassMelica mutica Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses acute; flowering scales short-hairy at base, divided at apex andbearing a dorsal awn about 4-5 long. Stamens 3. In woods and on rocky hills in the shade. June to Brunswick to British Columbia,south to Pennsylvania. BROAD-LEAVED SPIKE-GRASS, SLENDER SPIKE-GRASS, AND SEASIDE OATS by rushy on the beached margent of the sea. So strikingly ornamental arethe panicles of Broad-leavedSpike-grass that one assumes itto have been among the cherishedplants removed from Englishhomes and carefully cultivated in thewalled gardens of long ago. But insteadthis is distinctly an American grass, as arethe several members of the genus. Blos-soming in late summer, in the borders ofmoist woods and along winding streams, thelarge panicles call to mind those old-timebouquets of dried grasses that needed
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