. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. 112 BRITISH GRASSES. floret is small and polished; ovary ovate; styles long and slender ; stigmas feathery ; stamens three, long and thread- shaped; anthers cloven at both ends. This is a coarse grass, undesirable for agricultural purposes, but showy in ap- pearance, and well calculated for the landscape-garden, es- pecially when the ripening seed weighs down the pani- cles, and thus causes the culms to arch outwards. It is hardly indigenous in Bri- tain, and only found as a weed in cornfie
. British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland. Grasses. 112 BRITISH GRASSES. floret is small and polished; ovary ovate; styles long and slender ; stigmas feathery ; stamens three, long and thread- shaped; anthers cloven at both ends. This is a coarse grass, undesirable for agricultural purposes, but showy in ap- pearance, and well calculated for the landscape-garden, es- pecially when the ripening seed weighs down the pani- cles, and thus causes the culms to arch outwards. It is hardly indigenous in Bri- tain, and only found as a weed in cornfields ; it flowers all the summer and autumn, and this long flowering-sea- son makes it the more suit- able as a garden plant. It is a native of Europe, North America, the East Indies, and New Holland, in cultivated or waste land, which is either moist or occasionally inundated. The Cockspur Panicum is easily distinguished, for it and the Triodia decumbens are the only British grasses destitute of a ligule. Its crowded panicle, with its few dense spike-like branches, and the long, smooth, fine, transparent bristles situated in tufts about the spikelets, are specific distinctions patent to every observer. This family contains many grasses of importance, as affording food for man. The Panicum Italicum is called the " True Panick-grass," and is the one cultivated ex- tensively in Italy and elsewhere for its abundant seeds; its culms are slender, and the almost cylindrical panicles. 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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