. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. 210 BRITISH GRASSES. drooping when ripe ; spikelets oval, sessile, in two rows, each containing four or five florets ; rachis zigzag; outer glumes roughish, nearly equal, thin, somewhat hairy, awned ; flowering glumes roughish, rather hairy, larger than the outer ones, furnished with a long slender rough awn on its summit; palese the same length, with two green marginal ribs. The Fibrous Wheat-grass is a denizen of bushy places and damp shady situations; it will live in open ground, but it
. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. 210 BRITISH GRASSES. drooping when ripe ; spikelets oval, sessile, in two rows, each containing four or five florets ; rachis zigzag; outer glumes roughish, nearly equal, thin, somewhat hairy, awned ; flowering glumes roughish, rather hairy, larger than the outer ones, furnished with a long slender rough awn on its summit; palese the same length, with two green marginal ribs. The Fibrous Wheat-grass is a denizen of bushy places and damp shady situations; it will live in open ground, but it prefers shelter. It is a tall, slender, elegant grass, the spike generally arching a little, and the stem-leaves drooping in a flag-like man- ner ; the leaves all being smooth on the under surface is a good mark of distinction, and the awns on the flower- ing glumes is a still more valuable one. Cattle eat this grass with avidity, and it produces a good quantity of early herb- age ; these points qualify it for a good position among agricultural grasses. Its latter math is inferior. Frequent in every part of Britain. Its foreign homes are Lapland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Iceland, and Siberia. It flowers early in July, and ripens its seed in 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 Plues, Margaret. London : Reeve & co.
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