. 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. 3. Diplachne maritima Bicknell. Long- awned Diplachne. Fig. 569. Festuca procumbens Muhl. Gram. 160. 1817. Diplachne procumbens Nash, in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 145. 1903. Not Arech. 1896. D. maritima Bicknell, Bull. Torrey Club 35: 195. 1908. Culms tufted, finally branching, 8'-l6' tall; blades erect, 3'-8' long, 2" wide or less, involute when dry; racemes n
. 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. 3. Diplachne maritima Bicknell. Long- awned Diplachne. Fig. 569. Festuca procumbens Muhl. Gram. 160. 1817. Diplachne procumbens Nash, in Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 145. 1903. Not Arech. 1896. D. maritima Bicknell, Bull. Torrey Club 35: 195. 1908. Culms tufted, finally branching, 8'-l6' tall; blades erect, 3'-8' long, 2" wide or less, involute when dry; racemes numerous, erect, the larger 2'-3' long; spikelets about 5" long; scales 8-10, the empty ones usually awned or awn-pointed, the flowering scales, exclusive of the awn, 2i"-4i" long, acuminate at the slightly 2-toothed apex, the midnerve extending into an awn i or more as long as the scale. Brackish marshes and shores, Massachusetts to South Carolina; also on the shore of Onondaga Lake, N. Y. 78. AIRA L. Sp. PI. 63. 1753. [Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100. 1789.] Perennial tufted grasses, with narrow .flat leaf-blades and paniculate inflorescence. Spikelets 2-4-flowered. Two lower scales empty, somewhat obtuse or acute, unequal, shorter than the spikelet; flowering scales membranous, rounded on the back, 3-nerved; palets scarcely shorter than the scales, obtuse, 2-keeled. Stamens 3. Styles short. Stigmas short, plumose. Grain oblong, free, enclosed in the scale and palet. [Greek name for Lolium temulentum.] A genus of a few species, natives of Europe and Asia. Type species coerulea L. i. Aira coerulea L. Lavender-grass. Purple Melic- or Moor Grass. Indian-grass. Fig. 570. Aira coerulea L. Sp'. PI. 63. 1753. Molinia coerulea Moench, Meth. 183. 1794. Culms i°-3i° tall, erect, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths overlapping and confined to the lower part of the culm, smooth and glabrous; ligule a ring of very short hairs; blades 4'-i° long or mo
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