. 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. Genus 28. GRASS FAMILY. 173. 4. Savastana alpina (Sw.) Scribn. Alpine Holy Grass. Fig. 411. Hplcus alpinus Sw.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 937. 1806. Hierochloa alpina R. & S. Syst. 2: 515. 1817. Savastana alpina Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 34. 1894. Glabrous and smooth, culms 6'-i8' tall, erect, simple. Sheaths shorter internodes; ligule less than 1"
. 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. Genus 28. GRASS FAMILY. 173. 4. Savastana alpina (Sw.) Scribn. Alpine Holy Grass. Fig. 411. Hplcus alpinus Sw.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 937. 1806. Hierochloa alpina R. & S. Syst. 2: 515. 1817. Savastana alpina Scribn. Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 34. 1894. Glabrous and smooth, culms 6'-i8' tall, erect, simple. Sheaths shorter internodes; ligule less than 1" long; lower blades elongated, 3-6' long, about 1" wide, the upper much shorter, ¥-2' long, i"-2" wide; panicle l'-l4' long, contracted, branches short, erect or ascending; occasionally the panicle is larger with longer and spreading branches; spikelets 2i"-3i" long, crowded; first and second scales gla- brous, 2i"-3^" long; third and fourth shorter, sca- brous, ciliate on the margins, the former bearing an awn about 1" long, the latter with a more or less bent awn about 3" long; fifth scale shorter than the others, acute, usually awn-pointed, villous at the apex. Greenland to Alaska, south to the high mountains of New England and New York. Also in northern Europe and Asia. July-Aug. 29. MILIUM L. Sp. PI. 61. 1753. Annual or perennial grasses, with flat leaf-blades and terminal lax panicles. Spikelets I-flowered. Scales 3, obtuse, not awned; the outer about equal; the third thin-membranous, at length rigid, glabrous or pubescent, awnless, and with the margins inrolled; palet scarcely shorter. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct. Stigmas plumose. Grain ovoid or oblong, free, tightly enclosed in the rigid and shining scale and palet. [Latin name for Millet.] Species 5 or 6, chiefly in Europe and Asia. Type species: Milium effusum L. i. Milium effusum L. Tall Millet-grass. Fig. 412. Milium effusum L. Sp. PI. 61. 1753. Glabrous throughout
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