. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. Fig. 111. Fig. 112. Fig. 113. Fig. 114. The Creeping Soft Grass (Holcus mollis), Fig. 110, is of no value, and is regarded as a troublesome weed. Distinguished from the preceding by its awnod floret and its creeping root. The flowers of this grass are seen magnified in Figs. 113 and 1
. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. Fig. 111. Fig. 112. Fig. 113. Fig. 114. The Creeping Soft Grass (Holcus mollis), Fig. 110, is of no value, and is regarded as a troublesome weed. Distinguished from the preceding by its awnod floret and its creeping root. The flowers of this grass are seen magnified in Figs. 113 and 114. 53. HiEROCiiLOA. Hobj Grass. Panicle open, spikelets three-flowered; the two lower flowers staminate ; glumes equalling the spikelet; leaves linear, flat. Seneca Grass, or Vanilla Grass (Merochloa bore- cdis), has spikelets three-flowered; flowers all with two palese; brandies of the panicle smooth; grows from twelve to eighteen inches high. Stems erect, round, smooth ; panicle somewhat spreading, rather one-sided; leaves short, broad, lanceolate, rough on the inner side, smooth behind ; spikelets rather large. Grows in wet meadows. Flowers in May. Common and generally diff'used, but of no value for cultivation, on account of its powerful creeping roots, and very slight spring- foliage. This grass derived its generic name, Hierochloa, holy grass, from two Greek words, signifying sacred grass, from the fact that it was customary to strew it before the doors of the churches on festival and saint's days, in the north of Europe. In Sweden it is sold to be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flint, Charles L. (Charles Louis), 1824-1889. Boston : J. E. Tilton
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