. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. . grounds, where mead- ow and wood- land meet in a debatable border of half thicket, half marsh, as the meadow grasses give place sedges and a few stragglers from the thickets advance toward more open country. The stems of Fringed Brome-grass are stout and leafy, usually rising in groups which are very noticeable above a lower growth of plants. The panicles are large and are composed of slender branches bearing silky, short-awned spikelets. Handsome groups of Chess are frequently se
. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. . grounds, where mead- ow and wood- land meet in a debatable border of half thicket, half marsh, as the meadow grasses give place sedges and a few stragglers from the thickets advance toward more open country. The stems of Fringed Brome-grass are stout and leafy, usually rising in groups which are very noticeable above a lower growth of plants. The panicles are large and are composed of slender branches bearing silky, short-awned spikelets. Handsome groups of Chess are frequently seen in old grain fields and on waste land, where this grass appears as a weed, and in midsummer opens heavy panicles of large spikelets. If every plant is sometime "to be of utility in the arts" Chess has as yet shown nothing but beauty as its excuse for appearing so often where it is least wanted. The panicles are striking and ornamental, but Chess has met little favour either in this country or abroad. With gifted imagination, and un- troubled by the constancy of Nature, the peas- antry of the Old World considered this grass a degenerated wheat, and supplied the missing links in the lineage by assuming sundry transmutations in which a grain of wheat should send up a stalk of rye, and the rye being sown should produce barley, while from barley a Chess should be grown that later, under favorable conditions, might awaken to life under the form of oats. 229 il Downy Brome-grass Bromus tectorum. 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 Baker, Mary Francis, 1876-1941. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page
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