. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . TUFTED ERAGROSTIS iErasii-iiS pilusa). A very variable species. Spikelets enlarged by cwo Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses. Eragrostis, like a reddish purple mist, often cover the ground,and although October frosts fade the flowering-heads to a palestraw-colour, they arestill noticeable duringautumn, when, as oneof the tumbleweeds ofthe East, they are carriedby the wind and piled inhuge drifts against way-side fences. in similar locations < the panicles of Lace-grass ^(E
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . TUFTED ERAGROSTIS iErasii-iiS pilusa). A very variable species. Spikelets enlarged by cwo Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses. Eragrostis, like a reddish purple mist, often cover the ground,and although October frosts fade the flowering-heads to a palestraw-colour, they arestill noticeable duringautumn, when, as oneof the tumbleweeds ofthe East, they are carriedby the wind and piled inhuge drifts against way-side fences. in similar locations < the panicles of Lace-grass ^(Eragrostis capilldris) ingreen and purple are some-times mistaken for those ofthe larger species but should be dis-tinguished by the shorter, few-floweredspikelets, and by the absence of hairssurrounding the base of the these grasses the widely spreadingpanicle is usually much longer than thestem which supports it, and the hair-likepedicels are as long or longer than theirspikelets. Tufted Eragrostis {Eragrostis pilosa) isa slender annual which is found by way-sides and on sandy river banks. The leavesare very narrow, and the green or purplepanicles are shorter and narrower than inthe two species mentioned above. The ornamen
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