. 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. Genus 14. GRASS FAMILY. I25 14. ANASTROPHUS Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 8: 681. 1850. Perennial grasses, often creeping stolons which are thickly clothed with leaves bearing short blades, and erect stems. Spikes i-sided, in pairs at the summit of the stem, or sometimes with an additional one a short distance below, or occasionally in scattered whorls, the ra
. 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. Genus 14. GRASS FAMILY. I25 14. ANASTROPHUS Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 8: 681. 1850. Perennial grasses, often creeping stolons which are thickly clothed with leaves bearing short blades, and erect stems. Spikes i-sided, in pairs at the summit of the stem, or sometimes with an additional one a short distance below, or occasionally in scattered whorls, the rachis winged. Spikelets elliptic to lanceolate, obtuse or acute, glabrous or pubescent, singly disposed, articulated below the empty scales. Scales 3, the outer 2 membranous, 2- several-nerved, the third scale with its opening turned toward the rachis, chartaceous in flower, becoming indurated in fruit, enclosing a palet of similar texture and a perfect flower. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. [Greek, in reference to the position of the spikelets.] About 12 species, distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions. Type species: Pas- palum platyculmum Thouar. 1. A. compressus. 2. A. furcatus. Spikelets not exceeding i}4" long, pubescent. Spikelets 2"-3" long, glabrous. i. Anastrophus compressus (Sw.) Schlecht. Flat Joint-grass. Fig. 286. Milium compressum Sw. Prod. 24. 1788. Paspalum tristachyon Lam. 111. 1 : 176. 1791. P. platycaule Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 5: 34. 1804. Paspalum compressum Ness, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2: 23. 1829. Anastrophus compressus Schlecht.; Doell, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 22: 102. 1877. Stolons numerous, leafy, sometimes 2° long. Culms 4'-3° tall, slender, compressed, gla- brous ; sheaths loose; blades glabrous, some- times ciliate, obtuse, those of the culm 2'-4' long, 2"-4" wide, those of the stolons about 1' long, i"-2" wide; racemes in pairs, approxi- mate at the summit of the long and slender stalk, or sometimes
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