. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . modern text-books say nothing ofthis habit his record may remain as an evidence of things notseen by less fortunate botanists of later times. Rice Cut-grass. Cut-grass. Leersia oryioides (L.) Sw. 2-4 ft. tall, much branched, erect or spreading. Ligule very short. Sheaths and leaves rough, clothed in minute, downward-pointing, hooked prickles. Leaves 4-io long, 2-5 5-io long, branches spreading, not numerous. Spikelets i- flowered, flattened, light green
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . modern text-books say nothing ofthis habit his record may remain as an evidence of things notseen by less fortunate botanists of later times. Rice Cut-grass. Cut-grass. Leersia oryioides (L.) Sw. 2-4 ft. tall, much branched, erect or spreading. Ligule very short. Sheaths and leaves rough, clothed in minute, downward-pointing, hooked prickles. Leaves 4-io long, 2-5 5-io long, branches spreading, not numerous. Spikelets i- flowered, flattened, light green, 2-2| long. Scales 2, nearly equal in length, downy; outer scale rough on keel and margins; inner scale rough on keel. Stamens 3, anthers pale and along streams. July to September,Nova Scotia to Ontario, south to Florida and Texas. REED CANARY-GRASS Thou shouldst have gathered reeds from a green stream. A broad ribbon of dull rose often borders the winding streamsand brooks of June when, for a few weeks, the Reed Canary-grassblooms. In spikelets and lightly poised anthers this grass offers 90. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses most attractive colour-ing, and even beforeflowering the densegrowth of blue-greenleaves is noticed inmarked contrast to thelighter colour of themarsh. A stout perennialwith creeping rootstocks,this grass grows mostluxuriantly in wet mead-ows and in shallow water,where the profusion of Enlarged spikelet ofPhalaris arundinacea leaves, which are alwaysdarker in colour than thesmooth and shiningstems, forms a mass ofverdure n bloom the shortbranches of the paniclesspread from the stem,but they are soon drawnclosely to it again as theflowers fade, and in theripening head the funguscommonly known asergot often appears as blackThe true Canarv-Rrass
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