. 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 t/^ .«;fe2« ize, as do no other plants, the heat of summer with its hay fields and the endless, iterant call of the cicada. In drier places Brown Bent- grass {Agrostis canina) is often found in bloom a month before the common Red-top, and it is also frequently seen in moister meadows as a red-brown mist closery following the blossoming of Velvet Grass. In bloom the plant calls to mind a miniature Red-top, but the leaves are narrowe
. 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 t/^ .«;fe2« ize, as do no other plants, the heat of summer with its hay fields and the endless, iterant call of the cicada. In drier places Brown Bent- grass {Agrostis canina) is often found in bloom a month before the common Red-top, and it is also frequently seen in moister meadows as a red-brown mist closery following the blossoming of Velvet Grass. In bloom the plant calls to mind a miniature Red-top, but the leaves are narrower than those of the latter species, the basal leaves being almost bristle-form, while the flowering scale differs in devel- oping a dorsal awn. Brown Bent is often seen on lawns and it is also quite common near the coastwise marshes of New England and New Jersey, where under the hot sunlight the widely open panicles of this grass rarely vary in colour from brown or brownish purple, flecked with white by the small anthers. Thin-grass {Agrostis perennans) is well de- scribed by its common name. The panicles are very pale green, rarely tinged with purple, and the short branches, with the branchlets and pedicels, are widely spreading. The whole plant is weak and slender, and the tiny flowers, open- ing soon after Brown Bent blossoms, are in out- ward appearance not unlike those of a small Red-top that has lost its colour through growing in a shaded place, but in examining a blossom with the microscope the palet is seen to be minute or lacking. Thin-grass is most frequently found in the damp soil of shaded pastures, and it is one of the comparatively few grasses that ascend the highest mountains of the Appalachians. 116. Rtd-top Agrostis alba. 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.
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