. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 623. 1. D. sicuLA Diim. 1. c. A smootli erect umiuiil, L*0-30 Leaves 3-4 in number, '^ nun. long; blades tliiu, 5-S cm. long, mm. long. I'iUiiclo spikelike, •i-6 cm. long. Spikelets oviite to linear, 8-'20-tlowered, lU-15 mm. long; empty glumes ovate, first 3-5-nerVetl, second 4-7- nerved; fionil glume 4-5 mm. long. Colorado, ^'assid
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 623. 1. D. sicuLA Diim. 1. c. A smootli erect umiuiil, L*0-30 Leaves 3-4 in number, '^ nun. long; blades tliiu, 5-S cm. long, mm. long. I'iUiiclo spikelike, •i-6 cm. long. Spikelets oviite to linear, 8-'20-tlowered, lU-15 mm. long; empty glumes ovate, first 3-5-nerVetl, second 4-7- nerved; fionil glume 4-5 mm. long. Colorado, ^'assidi/ in 1885. Not unfrcquently cultivated for orna- ment. r.'3. (249). DacTYLIS L. Sp. PI. 71 Fm. i08. - nrmmeria si (1753). Adans. Fum. 2:;54 (17(i;5). '^^'\ ;}•. «PikHet; a Spikelets several-flowered, mncli flattened, sessile and densely crowded in tliiek one-sided clusters, arranged in a short irregular spike or at the ends of the sliort branches of a dense irregular one-sided panicle, rachilla glabrous, inarticulate or tardily articulate between the florets. Empty glumes firm, thin, keeled, mucronate, une(|ual, 3-nerved; floral glume larger, scabrous, cartilaginous, ;5-5-nerved, the ciliolate keel produced into a jioint or short awn; i>alea little shorter than its glume, "^-keeled. Stamens 3. (Jrain obcom})ressed, concave or broadly furrowed, included by glume and palea, but not adhering. A perennial tufted grass with flat-keeled or couduplicate leaf- blades. There is only a single species, sometimes separated into two or more. Common in Europe, temjjcrate Asia, and northern Africa, and now naturalized in many parts of Australia and North America. 1. D. GLOMERATA L. 1. C. OuCirA RD-URASS. CoCK'S-FOOT. D. (tUaiea Bess. Schult. :Mant. ".':(;-2(] (18->4). D. ahhrcviata liernli. Link, Ilort. Berol. l:ir)3 (18">:). D. mpi/aia Schult. Mant. 1. c. D. ciliata Opiz, Xym. ("onsp. 81!). D. f/htitresrens AVilld. Enum. Ilort. Uerol. 111. />
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