. 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. 5. Danthonia intermedia Vasey. Vasey's Wild Oat-grass. Fig. 536. D. intermedia Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club 10: 52. 1883. A glabrous tufted perennial. Culms 4-18' tall; blades up to 6' long and 2" wide, often involute; panicle l£"-2" long, contracted, dense, spike-like, variegated with purple, its branches short and ap- pressed; spikelets 7"-8&qu
. 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. 5. Danthonia intermedia Vasey. Vasey's Wild Oat-grass. Fig. 536. D. intermedia Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club 10: 52. 1883. A glabrous tufted perennial. Culms 4-18' tall; blades up to 6' long and 2" wide, often involute; panicle l£"-2" long, contracted, dense, spike-like, variegated with purple, its branches short and ap- pressed; spikelets 7"-8" long, exclusive of the awns, the empty scales broad, acuminate, variegated with purple, the flowering scales 3i"~4" long, pubescent only on the margins below the middle and at the base, the teeth acute and usually awned, the central awn 3"-4" long. Hillsides and meadows, Quebec; northern Michigan ; Saskatchewan to British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, and southward in the mountains to Colorado. July and Aug. 56. CAPRIOLA Adans. Fam. PL 2: 31. 1763. [Cynodon Rich.; Pers. Syn. 1: 85. 1805.] Perennial grasses with short flat leaf-blades and spicate inflorescence, the spikes digitate. Spikelets i-flowered, secund. Scales 3; the 2 lower empty, keeled; flowering scale broader, membranous, compressed; palet a little shorter than the scale, hyaline, 2-keeled. Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Stigmas short, plumose. Grain free. [Name mediaeval Latin for the wild goat that feeds on this grass in waste rocky places.] Four known species, of which three are Australian, the following widely distributed. Type species : Panicum Dactylon L. i. Capriola Dactylon (L.) Kuntze. Bermuda- grass. Scutch-grass. Dog's-tooth Grass. Fig- 537- Panicum Dactylon L. Sp. PI. 58. 1753. Cynodon Dactylon Pers. Syn. i : 85. 1805. Capriola Dactylon Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 764. 1891. Culms 4'-i2' tall, erect, from long creeping and branching stolons, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths glabrous or some
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