. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. GRASSES iM Fig. 526. Japanese barnyard miileti Panicutn Crus-gatli). im. FiK. 530. St. Augustine grass iStenotaphrum secundatum). Fig. 528. Common millet or Hungarian-grass {Cha'toch- loa llatica). Fig. 527. Yellow foxtail (Chcetochloa glauca). ulated above the usually wing- keeled glumes. Below the lemma are two narrow or bristle-formed scales, which represent rudimen- tary flowers or sterile lemmas. Fertile lemma hard and shining in fruit and closely enveloping the 'If V ^'''*'"- (I '^^ arundinacea, Linn. Reed Canary-grass. (Fig. 53
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. GRASSES iM Fig. 526. Japanese barnyard miileti Panicutn Crus-gatli). im. FiK. 530. St. Augustine grass iStenotaphrum secundatum). Fig. 528. Common millet or Hungarian-grass {Cha'toch- loa llatica). Fig. 527. Yellow foxtail (Chcetochloa glauca). ulated above the usually wing- keeled glumes. Below the lemma are two narrow or bristle-formed scales, which represent rudimen- tary flowers or sterile lemmas. Fertile lemma hard and shining in fruit and closely enveloping the 'If V ^'''*'"- (I '^^ arundinacea, Linn. Reed Canary-grass. (Fig. 532.) A perennial grass from a creep- ing rootstock, growing to the height of two to four feet, with a narrow, branched panicle. Native in the north- ern half of the United States and also in Europe and Asia, where it occurs in wet meadow land. It is an important hay plant in the northern part of the Great Plains region and to the eastward perhaps more especially. A variety with striped leaves is cultivated for ornament under the name of ribbon-grass. Canariensis, Linn. Canary-grass. (Fig. 533.) An erect annual, with a compact, ovoid spike or head about an inch long. A native of the Old World, but introduced in waste places in America and also occa- sionally cultivated for its seed, which is used for bird-food. 13. Anthoxanthum (Greek, yellow flowers). A genus of three or four species of European grasses, one of which is occasionally cultivated in this country as a forage grass. Spikelets one-flowered, with two unequal glumes, two narrow scales repre- senting rudimentary flowers or sterile lemmas, and a perfect flower with a lemma shorter than the glumes. Aromatic annual or perennial grasses, with contracted, spike-like panicles. »doratum, Linn. Sweet Vernal-grass. (Fig. 534.) A perennial sweet-scented grass, native of Europe, but now introduced and widely distributed in the northern half of the United States. It H'eiiiiisi'tmn jg rarely grown in mixtures spiciUunt). » *', ^ .^
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