. 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. GRAMINEAE. Vol. I. i. Munroa squarrosa (Nutt.) Torr. Mun- ro's Grass. False Buffalo-grass. Fig. 558. Crypsis squarrosa Nutt. Gen. 1: 49. 1818. M. squarrosa Torr. Pac. R. R. Rept. 4: 158. 1856. Culms 2'-8' long, tufted, erect, decumbent or prostrate, much branched, smooth or rough. Sheaths short, crowded at the nodes and ends of the branches, smooth, pilose at t
. 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. GRAMINEAE. Vol. I. i. Munroa squarrosa (Nutt.) Torr. Mun- ro's Grass. False Buffalo-grass. Fig. 558. Crypsis squarrosa Nutt. Gen. 1: 49. 1818. M. squarrosa Torr. Pac. R. R. Rept. 4: 158. 1856. Culms 2'-8' long, tufted, erect, decumbent or prostrate, much branched, smooth or rough. Sheaths short, crowded at the nodes and ends of the branches, smooth, pilose at the base and throat, sometimes ciliate on the margins; ligule a ring of hairs; blades 1' long or less, i"-l" wide, rigid, spreading, scabrous, pungently-pointed; spikelets 2-5-flowered, the flowers perfect; empty scales i-nerved, shorter than the flowering scales which are about 2V long, 3-toothed, the nerves excurrent as short points or awns, tufts of hairs near the middle; palets obtuse. On dry plains, Saskatchewan to Nebraska and northern Mexico. 71. PHRAGMITES Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820. Tall perennial reed-like grasses, with broad flat leaf-blades and ample panicles. Spikelets 3-several-flowered, the first flower often staminate, the others perfect; rachilla articulated between the flowering scales, long-pilose. Two lower scales empty, unequal, membranous, lanceolate, acute, shorter than the spikelet; the third scale empty or subtending a staminate flower; flowering scales glabrous, narrow, long-acuminate, much exceeding the short palets. Stamens 3. Styles distinct, short. Stigmas plumose. Grain free, loosely enclosed in the scale and palet. [Greek, referring to its hedge-like growth along ditches.] Three known species, the following of the north temperate zone, one in Asia, the third in South America. Type species: Arundo Phragmites L. i. Phragmites Phragmites (L.) Karst. mon Reed-grass. Fig. 559. Com- Arundo Phragmites L. Sp. PI. 81. 1753. Phragmite
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