. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. GRAMINEAE. Vol. I. 43. CINNA L. Sp. PL 5. 1753. Tall grasses with flat leaf-blades and panicled spikelets. Spikelets i-flowered. Scales 3; the 2 outer empty, keeled, acute; the third scale similar, but usually short-awned on the back, subtending a palet and a stalked perfect flower; palet a little shorter, 1- or 2-nerved. Stamen I. Styles short, distinct. Stigm
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. GRAMINEAE. Vol. I. 43. CINNA L. Sp. PL 5. 1753. Tall grasses with flat leaf-blades and panicled spikelets. Spikelets i-flowered. Scales 3; the 2 outer empty, keeled, acute; the third scale similar, but usually short-awned on the back, subtending a palet and a stalked perfect flower; palet a little shorter, 1- or 2-nerved. Stamen I. Styles short, distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain narrow, free, enclosed in the scale and palet. Seed adherent to the pericarp. [Greek, from Dioscorides.] Four known species, inhabiting temperate regions of Europe and North America. Besides the following, another occurs in the western United States. Type species: Cinna arundinacea L. Panicle narrow at maturity, its filiform branches erect or drooping; spikelets 2j^"-3" long; first scale much shorter than the second. 1. C. arundinacea. Panicle open, its capillary branches flexuous and drooping; spikelets i}4"-2" long; first scale about equalling the second. 2. C. latifolia. i. Cinna arundinacea L. Wood or Sweet Reed-grass. Fig. 485. Cinna arundinacea L. Sp. PI. 5. 1753. Culms 2°-S° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths usually shorter than the in- ternodes, overlapping at the base of the culm, smooth or roughish; ligule i"-2" long, truncate; blades 6'-i° long, 2"-7" wide, scabrous; panicle 6'-l2' in length, usually contracted, sometimes purple, the filiform branches erect or drooping, the lower lY-qb' long; spikelets 2i"-3" in length, the scales acute, scabrous, especially on the keel, the first one shorter than the second; third scale slightly exceeded or equalled by the second, usu- ally bearing an awn about i" long from the 2-toothed apex. In moist woods and swamps, Nova Scotia to On- tar
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