. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 64. DACTYLOCTENIUM, Willd. Egyptian G. Spikes several, digitate, unilateral. Spkl. 2- CO-flwd. Gl. compressed-carinate, the upper awncd. Pales boat-sliaped, acute-mucrouate. Grain roundish, free. K. Egypticiim Wilkl. Culms creeping and ascending, 1—IJf; lvs. ciliate at base ; spikes comn>only 4 (cruciate), pointed; (T) F
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. 64. DACTYLOCTENIUM, Willd. Egyptian G. Spikes several, digitate, unilateral. Spkl. 2- CO-flwd. Gl. compressed-carinate, the upper awncd. Pales boat-sliaped, acute-mucrouate. Grain roundish, free. K. Egypticiim Wilkl. Culms creeping and ascending, 1—IJf; lvs. ciliate at base ; spikes comn>only 4 (cruciate), pointed; (T) Fields: com. Va. toFla. 65. SPARTINA, Schreb. Marsh G. Cord G. Sf kl. flat, l-ll\vd., closely imbricated in a double row on one side of tlie triquetrous rachis, forming dense spikes. Glumes keeled, coriaceous. Pales awnless. Style very long. U lligid marsh grasses. * Upper glume decidedly awned. Lower pale rough- hispid on the keel No, * Glumes merely (a) a Lower pale rough-hispid on the keel No; a Lower pale smooth. Spikes 1—12 .Noi 1 S. cyjiosuroides Willd. Culm 2—4f, slender but firm : lvs. long, narrow, involute-tiliform above ; spikes 5—15, in a raceme-like pani- i-le. each 2—i' long; upper glume with its awn 8-10'', lower glume and subequal 5)alcs 4—5". Brackish soils. August. 2 S. polystacliia Willd. Culm4—8f, i—1' in diameter ; leaves broadly linear, flat; spikes 20—.50, in a dense panicle, and 3—4'; upper pointed gl. 6", lower gl. 2—3", half as long as the equal pales. Salt marshes, chiefly southward. Aug., +(a,b,c) 3 S. Hook. Culml—2f; lvs. rolled, rigid, rush-like ; spikes 15—30, very short (Y). closely imbricated into a spike-form panicle. Swamps, Fla. July, August. 4 S. juMfea Willd. Culm 1—2f, slender; leaves rolled and rush-like or setaceous; spikes l—d, subsessile, 1—]}'long; upper glume 4", lower H", pales 3i^" ; whole plant glaln-ons except the rough-keeled upper glume. Marshes a
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