. 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. Genus 44. GRASS FAMILY. 207. 12. Agrostis hyemalis (Walt.) Rough Hair-grass. Fool-hay. Silk-grass. Fig. 498. Cornucopias hyemalis Walt. Fl. Car. 73. 1788. Agrostis scabra Willd. Sp. PI. 1: 370. 1798. Agrostis hyemalis Prel. Cat. N. Y. 68. 1888. Culms i°-2° tall, erect, slender, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths generally shorter than the intern
. 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. Genus 44. GRASS FAMILY. 207. 12. Agrostis hyemalis (Walt.) Rough Hair-grass. Fool-hay. Silk-grass. Fig. 498. Cornucopias hyemalis Walt. Fl. Car. 73. 1788. Agrostis scabra Willd. Sp. PI. 1: 370. 1798. Agrostis hyemalis Prel. Cat. N. Y. 68. 1888. Culms i°-2° tall, erect, slender, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths generally shorter than the internodes; ligule i"-2" long; blades 2-5' long, 4"-ii" wide, usually erect, foughish; panicle 6-20 long, usually purplish, the capillary scabrous branches ascending, sometimes widely spreading, or often drooping, the lower 3'-6' long, divid- ing above the middle, the divisions spikelet-bearing at the extremities; spikelets l"-i" long, the outer scales acute, scabrous toward the apex and on the keel; third scale two-thirds the length of the first or equalling it, obtuse, rarely bearing a short awn; palet usually very small. In dry or moist soil, nearly throughout North America ex- cept the extreme north. Tickle-grass. Fly-away, Rough or Rough-leaved Bent-grass. July-Aug. Agrostis antecedent Bicknell, of eastern Massachusetts, differs in having the spikelets clustered at the ends of the branches. 1 n «... 13. Agrostis oreophila Trin. New England Bent-grass. Fig. 499. ?Agrostis novae-angliae Tuckerm. Hovey's Mag. 9: 143. April, 1843. ?Agrostis altissima var. laxa Tuckerm. Am. Journ. Sci. 45: 44. October, 1843. A. oreophila Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 62: 323. 1845- Culms 8'-is' tall, erect, simple, smooth and gla- brous. Sheaths longer than the internodes, gener- ally overlapping; ligule 1" long; blades i'~z¥ long, 1" wide or less, erect, usually involute, scabrous; panicle 3!'—7' in length, open, the branches spreading or ascending,
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