. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. The Book of Grasses bluest of the Poas, are noticeable in every soil; on sandy hills and in the thickets that border deep woods, on scantily covered rocks and by trodden paths. "T. False Red-t(tp, or Fowl Meadow-grass. Poa triflora "^T\3^-'' '^he whitish summits of the sheaths are very conspicuous against the blue-green leaves, and although the plants vary greatly in size they are rarely more than two feet tall, and are constant in their cha
. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. The Book of Grasses bluest of the Poas, are noticeable in every soil; on sandy hills and in the thickets that border deep woods, on scantily covered rocks and by trodden paths. "T. False Red-t(tp, or Fowl Meadow-grass. Poa triflora "^T\3^-'' '^he whitish summits of the sheaths are very conspicuous against the blue-green leaves, and although the plants vary greatly in size they are rarely more than two feet tall, and are constant in their character- istic colour and in the strongly flattened stems. Unlike the Kentucky Blue-grass, which soon ripens, the Canada Blue-grass blooms the entire season. Its panicles are short and narrow (usually one-sided), with short branches and greenish spike- lets. False Red-top, the tall- '\ est of the common Poas, blooms in swampy places and in wet meadows, where the green spikelets show each a tawny orange tip and sometimes change to dull purple as the seeds ripen. The large, gracefully droop- ing panicles could hardly be mistaken for those of the Red-top of the fields, and assuredly not if the spikelets were exam- ined, showing several tiny flowers in each spikelet where the Red-top has but one. n many places this species is known as Fowl Meadow-grass, and the tradition is that it received that name from the fact that wild ducks and other water-fowl brought the seed to a low meadow near Dedham, Mass. Flexuous Spear-grass and Short-leaved Spear-grass (Poa aidumndlis and P. brachy- 193. 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 Francis, Mary Evans. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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