. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GEISTEEA OF GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES. 237 Annuals or perennials, of wet soil, usually branching, the inflores- cence a dense, usually elongate, spikelike panicle. Species about 12; in the Tropics of both hemi- spheres, 1 extending into the south- eastern United States. Type species: Panicimi gibbum Ell. Sacciolepis Nash, in Britton, Man. 80. 1901. Only one species is described. jSacciolepis striata (L.) Nash {Holcus striatus L., Panicum. gib- hum Ell.) (fig. 144:) is a stolonifer- ous marsh grass found from Vir- gi
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GEISTEEA OF GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES. 237 Annuals or perennials, of wet soil, usually branching, the inflores- cence a dense, usually elongate, spikelike panicle. Species about 12; in the Tropics of both hemi- spheres, 1 extending into the south- eastern United States. Type species: Panicimi gibbum Ell. Sacciolepis Nash, in Britton, Man. 80. 1901. Only one species is described. jSacciolepis striata (L.) Nash {Holcus striatus L., Panicum. gib- hum Ell.) (fig. 144:) is a stolonifer- ous marsh grass found from Vir- ginia to Oklahoma and southward. It has no economic value. Oplismenus Beauv. Spikelets terete or somewhat lat- erally compressed, subsessile, soli- tary or in pairs, in two rows crowded or approximate on one side of a narrow scabrous or hairy rachis; glumes about equal, emarginate or 2-lobed, awned from between the lobes; sterile lemma ex- ceeding the glumes and fruit, notched or entire, mucronate. Fi«. 144.—fiaccifjlepis utriata. Plant, X i ; two views of splkclct and fertile floret, X 10. v shoi-t-awned, a hyaline [jalea; fertile lemma elliptic, acute, or boat shaped, the firm margins clasping the palea, not Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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