. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. GRASSES GRASSES 373. sativa, Linn. Oat. (Fig. 542.) An annual with nodding spikelets and many-nerved glumes, the awns of the persistent lem- mas straight or wanting. A common grain thought by many to have originated from the wild oat {A. fatua, Linn., Fig. 543), which differs in having a geniculate and twisted awn, and a deciduous lemma more or less covered with red-brown hairs
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. GRASSES GRASSES 373. sativa, Linn. Oat. (Fig. 542.) An annual with nodding spikelets and many-nerved glumes, the awns of the persistent lem- mas straight or wanting. A common grain thought by many to have originated from the wild oat {A. fatua, Linn., Fig. 543), which differs in having a geniculate and twisted awn, and a deciduous lemma more or less covered with red-brown hairs. The wild oat is abundantly intro- duced on the Pacific coast. A variety (.4. fafiia gla- brata, Peterm.) is cut for hay in Washington, and this and an allied species (^.&a?-6a/a, Brot.) are used ji^ for pasturage in Cali- 4/C:"^ fornia. [See Oats.] ^- â ^<=^/-'"" " 22. Dactylis ^^â ^<'T%/'^^^--- (Greek, finger). A -_x -^'i^^^ ^^ genus of grasses com- prising one species or several closely allied species, native in the northern part of the Old World. Spikelets three- to five-flowered, in dense fasci- cles, these forming a glomerate panicle, spreading in flower but contracted in fruit. Glumes one- to three-nerved, the lemma five- nerved. glomerata, Linn. Orchard- grass. (Fig. 544.) Commonly cultivated in the northern states for forage and extensively es- caped in waste places. It is of considerable importance in Ken- tucky, southern Indiana, Ten- nessee, North Carolina, western Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. 23. Cynosurus (Greek, dog's- tail). A genus of four or five species of grasses found in the north temperate regions of the Old World. Spikelets of two forms in small fascicles, these forming a dense, spike-like pan- icle ; terminal spikelets of the fascicles two- to four-flowered, perfect, the lower spikelet sterile, consisting of many â linear one-nerved glumes. crisfatus, Linn. Crested Dog's- tail. (Fig. 545.) A perennial grass, one
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