. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ar to the genus. Wood Muhlenbergia (Muhlenhergiasylvdiica) and Nimble Will {MuhlenhergiaSchrehert) are frequent along the bordersof woods, and in rocky places one nat-urally looks for Rock Muhlenbergia{Muhlenhergia soholifera). These areslender grasses that are usually muchbranched and that bear narrow, spike-like panicles of small, green flowers. Marsh Muhlenbergia {Muhlenhergiaracemdsa) grows in wet places and hasmuch stouter and more compact flower-ing-heads, which sometimes re
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ar to the genus. Wood Muhlenbergia (Muhlenhergiasylvdiica) and Nimble Will {MuhlenhergiaSchrehert) are frequent along the bordersof woods, and in rocky places one nat-urally looks for Rock Muhlenbergia{Muhlenhergia soholifera). These areslender grasses that are usually muchbranched and that bear narrow, spike-like panicles of small, green flowers. Marsh Muhlenbergia {Muhlenhergiaracemdsa) grows in wet places and hasmuch stouter and more compact flower-ing-heads, which sometimes resemblespikes of Timothy. Meadow Muhlenbergia frequentlygrows near dwelling houses, where inearly summer it offers the contrast ofspreading clumps of yellowish greenleaves to the darker colour of JuneGrass and Orchard Grass. MeadowMuhlenbergia is the last of the commondooryard grasses to bloom, and after onehas watched the branching stems theseason through, and has waited withio6 m. V / I Meadow MuhlenbergiaMulUenbergia mexicana Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses Long-awnedHair-grassMuhlenbergiacapillaris. curiosity for the blossoms to appear, there is small reward in seeing but short panicles of tiny green and lead-coloured flowers. The more slender Nimble Will, mentioned before, is also found in dooryards, where it hastily spreads wherever it has opportunity. Long-awned Hair-grass is found only ondry soil and is a delicate and beautiful grass,very distinct in appearance from our otherspecies of Muhlenbergia. The gossamer-like,purple panicles are long and glistening, whilethe awned, solitary flowers are borne on suchwidely spreading pedicels that the flowering-heads are frequently a foot across, and in latesummer are gauze-like and graceful until thefirst frost touches them. Meadow Muhlenbergia. Mexican Dropseed. Muhlen-bergia mexicana (L.) Trin. Perennial, from creeping 1^-3.^ ft. tall, smooth, wiry, much branched, erect or spreading. 107 The Book of Grass
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