British grasses and their employment in agriculture . Fig. 58. Seeds of Avena flavescens, L. x 10. Two views that of the cultivated oat. It is some 7 mm. long, distinctlygrooved on its inner surface, and covered with fine hairs at itsapex. (Fig. 62.) A. strigosa, L. (Bristle-pointed Oat.) Very closely resemblesthe wild oat and is perhaps only a variety. Its panicle is lessspreading, and more turned towards one side; the outer paleais terminated by two long straight bristles. Brachypodium sylvatkum, Beauv. (Wood False Brome-grass.) (Fig. 66.) Common in Britain. A tufted perennial growing in sha
British grasses and their employment in agriculture . Fig. 58. Seeds of Avena flavescens, L. x 10. Two views that of the cultivated oat. It is some 7 mm. long, distinctlygrooved on its inner surface, and covered with fine hairs at itsapex. (Fig. 62.) A. strigosa, L. (Bristle-pointed Oat.) Very closely resemblesthe wild oat and is perhaps only a variety. Its panicle is lessspreading, and more turned towards one side; the outer paleais terminated by two long straight bristles. Brachypodium sylvatkum, Beauv. (Wood False Brome-grass.) (Fig. 66.) Common in Britain. A tufted perennial growing in shade or semi-shade. Foliage CH. vn] Botanical Description of Species 75 of a pale sap-green colour, making the plant very round, sheaths split and hairy. Blade thin, long, narrowingtowards the base, and tapering above into a long point (Fig. 12);ribless, with scattered hairs. Ligule prominent, blunt, and about midsummer; culms erect, 1-2 feet high. In-florescence spikate, the spikelets being almost but not quite sessil
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