. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. Order 155.—GRAMINE^. 401. 8 E. tenuis (Ell. Poa trichodes N.) Plant 1—8f high; pan. long (8—24'), loose, capillary, bearded in the lower axils; spikelets 3(2-6)-flwd. (sometimes 7-9-flwd. Gray) ; pales and glumes lanceolate, hyaline, 3-veined, IJ" long, n 111., and S. 9 E. capillaris (L.) Like E. tenuis, but the spikelets are minut
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. Order 155.—GRAMINE^. 401. 8 E. tenuis (Ell. Poa trichodes N.) Plant 1—8f high; pan. long (8—24'), loose, capillary, bearded in the lower axils; spikelets 3(2-6)-flwd. (sometimes 7-9-flwd. Gray) ; pales and glumes lanceolate, hyaline, 3-veined, IJ" long, n 111., and S. 9 E. capillaris (L.) Like E. tenuis, but the spikelets are minute (1—IJ"), the fls. •2—4, acute, scabrous, with only the midvein apparent, n Sandy fields. Aug. 1 0 E. iiitlda (Ell.) Plant 2—4f, glabrous and polished (except the bearded throat of tlie long, rolled Ivs.); pan. IJ—3f long, narrow, branches some whorled; spkl. lance- linear, 3—4", 5-12-flwd., on capillary divaricate pedicels; gl. and pales acute, 3-veined, often purplish, 1" long. ii Marshes, 111. {J. Wolf), and South. HE. pectliiacea (Mx.) Gr. (E. liirsuta [Ell. etc.]). Culm 1—3f, rigid; sheaths some hairy; pan. very large, branches rigid, the lower deflexed in fruit; spkl. («,/) oblong, purple, 2—3" ; fls. 5—15, oval, acutish, strongly 3-veined. n Sandy fields. July, Aug, (Poa spectabilis Ph.) A showy grass, sport of the winds when dry. ' 45. POA, L. Spear G. Meadow G. Spike- ,^^^ ^ lets 2-5(mre]y-9)-flwcl., compressed. Glumes sub- j^ (A^ * equal, pointless, shorter than the contiguous fls. J^ ^^wiyiw^a Pales herbaceous, soft, awnless, the lowei" com- f "^^^^ pressed-carinate, 5-veined, usually clothed at base " f* ?with a cobweb-like wool. Grain free. Smooth grasses, with soft flat leaves, and panicled flowers. § Branches of the panicle in 2"s, 3"s, or often single. .(*) § Brancbes of the panicle in about 5's, (**) j, * Fls. not webbed, merely pubescent on the (a) '^<^^^-. "
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