. Flowers of the field. Botany. 572 CRAMJNE/Ii; truncate and torn at the top.âIn ditches and by the margins of ponds ; rather scarce, though distributed over the whole island. One of the sweetest of grasses, water-fowl and cattle being fond of it ; but unsuitable for cultivation from the character of its habitat. (Name from the Greek kathbriisis, an eating out, alluding to the torn ends of the glumes.)âFl. May, June. IMi^TJCA Nr'-TAKr. (If'^^yff Afi-//i-ri}j;rs.':). 34. (Melic),âPi'Diide slender; spikclcis rather larcre and few, ovate, awnless, j 2-tloweredf; glumes nearly
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 572 CRAMJNE/Ii; truncate and torn at the top.âIn ditches and by the margins of ponds ; rather scarce, though distributed over the whole island. One of the sweetest of grasses, water-fowl and cattle being fond of it ; but unsuitable for cultivation from the character of its habitat. (Name from the Greek kathbriisis, an eating out, alluding to the torn ends of the glumes.)âFl. May, June. IMi^TJCA Nr'-TAKr. (If'^^yff Afi-//i-ri}j;rs.':). 34. (Melic),âPi'Diide slender; spikclcis rather larcre and few, ovate, awnless, j 2-tloweredf; glumes nearly equal ; rackilla piroduccd and terminated by a c[ub-shaped rudimentary (lower of empty glumes ; jruil loosely wrapped in the flowering glimie. (Name said to be from the Latin mcl, honey, on account I if the sweetness of the stem.) I. M. nwiitdua (Mountain Melic). â A slender, erect plant, t â 2 feet high, with delicale, Hat, sparsuly haitv Ictirrs ,â paincle 2 â 3 in long, nearly a simple raceme, i-side^d, with slender, short. 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 Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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