. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. AGROSTIS. 153 whole panicle, together with the delicate minuteness of floret and branches, makes it a very elegant object, as it flourishes on the borders of fields, or in waste places in alpine heights. There is a dwarf variety, differing only in size from the normal form, but named by Koch A. alpina; it has been found among the Clova mountains, on Ben Lomond, and in the Isle of Arran. The A. canina flowers from the end of June to 3. Agrostis setacea, Curt. Bristle Agrostis. Root
. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. AGROSTIS. 153 whole panicle, together with the delicate minuteness of floret and branches, makes it a very elegant object, as it flourishes on the borders of fields, or in waste places in alpine heights. There is a dwarf variety, differing only in size from the normal form, but named by Koch A. alpina; it has been found among the Clova mountains, on Ben Lomond, and in the Isle of Arran. The A. canina flowers from the end of June to 3. Agrostis setacea, Curt. Bristle Agrostis. Root perennial, fibrous, tufted; stems filiform, erect, roughish, one to two feet high ; leaves filiform, four or five on the stem, and dense tufts at the root, rough, the root ones long ; sheaths rough, striated, the uppermost one greatly longer than its leaf; ligule long and pointed ; panicle ap- proximate, only spreading while the florets are open, com- pound, erect; branches very slender, short, rough, placed in clusters of three or five; spikelets small pointed; outer glumes nearly, but not quite, equal, the lowest longest, not ribbed, and toothed the whole length of the keel; both sharply pointed; flowering glume toothed at the apex, a little shorter than the outer ones, with four ribs and hairs at the base, awned ; awn rising from the base of the flower- ing glume, long, fine, roughish, protruding a little beyond the apices of the outer glumes; palea very minute, scale-. 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 Plues, Margaret. London : Reeve & co.
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