. 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. 14. Elymus brachystachys Scribn. & Ball. • Short-spiked Wild Rye. Fig. 713. Elymus brachystachys Scribn. & Ball, Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 24: 21. 1901. Culms i°-3° tall, erect; sheaths glabrous; blades up to 8' long, 3"-6" wide, rough, or sometimes smooth below; spike 3'-6' long, i'-ii' in diameter, long- exserted; spikelets 3-5-flo
. 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. 14. Elymus brachystachys Scribn. & Ball. • Short-spiked Wild Rye. Fig. 713. Elymus brachystachys Scribn. & Ball, Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 24: 21. 1901. Culms i°-3° tall, erect; sheaths glabrous; blades up to 8' long, 3"-6" wide, rough, or sometimes smooth below; spike 3'-6' long, i'-ii' in diameter, long- exserted; spikelets 3-5-flowered, in pairs, the empty scales hispidulous, flat, narrowly lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, attenuate into a hispidulous awn about three times their length, the flowering scales glabrous or his- pidulous, bearing an awn 10"-20" long. Moist grounds, Maryland to Michigan, South Dakota, Texas and Mexico. July and Aug. Figured in our first edition as E. canadensis L. from which it is now dis- tinguished. 15. Elymus striatus Willd. Slender Wild Rye. Dennett-grass. Fig. 714. Elymus striatus Willd. Sp. PI. 1: 470. 1797- Elymus striatus var. villosus A. Gray, Man. 603. 1848. Elymus striatus Ballii Pammel, la. Geol. Surv. Suppl. Rep. 1903: 347. 1904. Culms 2°-3° tall, erect, slender, simple, smooth, glabrous. Sheaths usually shorter than the inter- nodes, glabrous or hirsute; ligule very short; leaves 5'-o' long, 2"-s" wide, smooth or slightly rough beneath, pubescent above; spike 2i'-4i' in length, broad, slender, dense; spikelets divergent from the rachis, 1-3-flowered; empty scales awl-shaped, 9"-i2" long, including the slender rough awn, 1-3- nerved, hirsute; flowering scales about 3" long, hirsute, bearing a slender rough awn 8"-is" in length. In woods and on banks, Maine to North Dakota, North Carolina and Texas. Spike often nodding. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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