. 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. 8. Elymus halophilus Bicknell. Salt Marsh Wild Rye. Fig. 707. Elymus halophilus Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 201. 1908. Culms tufted, erect, rigid, ii°-2i° tall; sheaths gla- brous; blades up to 6' long and 2" wide, stiff, erect, rough, becoming involute when dry; spike erect, long- exserted, ii'-4' long; empty scales 3i"-5" long, at- tenuate i
. 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. 8. Elymus halophilus Bicknell. Salt Marsh Wild Rye. Fig. 707. Elymus halophilus Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 201. 1908. Culms tufted, erect, rigid, ii°-2i° tall; sheaths gla- brous; blades up to 6' long and 2" wide, stiff, erect, rough, becoming involute when dry; spike erect, long- exserted, ii'-4' long; empty scales 3i"-5" long, at- tenuate into a slender hispidulous awn, hispidulous on the prominent nerves, the flowering scales z"-$k" long, papillose, attenuate into a slender hispidulous awn. Salt marshes, Massachusetts to Staten Island. Plant grey-green, glaucous. July-Sept. 9. Elymus virginicus L. Terrell-grass. Vir- ginia Wild Rye. Fig. 708. Elymus virginicus L. Sp. PI. 84. 1753. Culms 20-3° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths usually shorter than the internodes, often overlapping on the lower part of the culm, smooth, sometimes pubescent, the uppermost often inflated and enclosing the peduncle and the base of the spike; ligule very short; blades s'-i4' long, 2"-%" wide, rough; spike 2'-? in length, broad, stout, upright; spikelets divergent from the rachis, 2-3-flowered; empty scales thick and rigid, lanceolate, 8"-i2" long, in- cluding the short awn, 5-7-nerved; flowering scales 3"-4" long, glabrous, bearing a rough awn 2"-6" in length. In moist soil, especially along streams, Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to Florida and Texas. Ascends to 2000 ft. in North Carolina. Virginia Lyme-grass. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 185
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