. 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. Marsh Spike-grass. Fig. 599- Alkali-grass. Salt-grass. Uniola spicata L. Sp. PI. 71. 1753. Distichlis maritima Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 104. 1819. Uniola stricta Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 155. 1824. D, spicata Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2: 415. 1887. Distichlis spicata var. stricta Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club 5: 51. 1894. Glabrous throughout, culms 3-2° tall, erect from
. 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. Marsh Spike-grass. Fig. 599- Alkali-grass. Salt-grass. Uniola spicata L. Sp. PI. 71. 1753. Distichlis maritima Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 104. 1819. Uniola stricta Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 155. 1824. D, spicata Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2: 415. 1887. Distichlis spicata var. stricta Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club 5: 51. 1894. Glabrous throughout, culms 3-2° tall, erect from a horizontal rootstock, or often decumbent at the base. Sheaths overlapping and often crowded; ligule a ring of very short hairs-; blades i'-6' long, i"-2" wide, flat or involute; panicle dense and spike-like, l'-2i' in length, the branches i' long or less, erect; spikelets 6-16-flowered, 4"-9" long, pale green; empty scales acute, the first 1-3-nerved, two-thirds as long as the 3-5-nerved second one; flowering scales ii"- 2I" long, acute or acuminate. On salt meadows along the coast from Nova Scotia to Texas, in saline soil throughout the interior, and on the Pacific Coast north to British Columbia. Also in the Bahamas and other West Indies. The main figure is that of the staminate plant. June-Sept. 89. BRIZA L. Sp. PI. 70. 1753. Annual or perennial grasses, with flat or convolute leaf-blades and open or rarely con- tracted panicles. Spikelets large, flattened, tumid, many-flowered, nodding, the flowers perfect. Scales thin-membranous, strongly concave, the 2 lower empty, 3-5-nerved, somewhat unequal; flowering scales imbricated, broader than the empty ones, 5-many-nerved; uppermost scales often empty; palets much shorter than the scales, hyaline, 2-keeled or 2-nerved. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain usually free, enclosed in the scale and palet. [Greek name for some grain, perhaps rye.] natives of the Old World and temperate S
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