. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—GRAMINEAE—GRASSES 361. Fig. 150. Awned Bromegrass (.Bromus tect- orum). a. Sterile or outer glumes, b. Spike- let. U. S. Dept. Agr. 10. Lolium, L. Darnel and Rye Grasses Annual or perennial grasses with flat leaves and terminal spike; spikelets many-flowered, solitary on each joint of the continuous rachis placed edge- wise; empty glumes except in the terminal spikelets; only one flowering glume, rounded on the back, 5-
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—GRAMINEAE—GRASSES 361. Fig. 150. Awned Bromegrass (.Bromus tect- orum). a. Sterile or outer glumes, b. Spike- let. U. S. Dept. Agr. 10. Lolium, L. Darnel and Rye Grasses Annual or perennial grasses with flat leaves and terminal spike; spikelets many-flowered, solitary on each joint of the continuous rachis placed edge- wise; empty glumes except in the terminal spikelets; only one flowering glume, rounded on the back, 5-7 nerved, palet 2-keeled; stamens 3; grain adherent to .the palet, 6 species, 2 more or less naturalized in the eastern states. Natives of the Old World. Two species, the Italian rye grass and the common rye grass, are valuable forage plants. Darnel is a troublesome, poisonous grass. Lolium temulentum, h- Darnel, Poison Darnel An annual with smooth stout culm, 2-3 feet high; leaves with scabrous sheaths and short ligule; spike 6-12 inches long; spikelets 5-7 flowered; empty glumes sharp pointed, as long as the spikelets; flowering glume awned or awn- less. Commonly found in grain 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 Pammel, L. H. (Louis Hermann), 1862-1931. Cedar Rapids, Ia. , The Torch Press
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