. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. CREEPING SOFT-GRASS S3S has a short blunt ligule, and the panicle is open when the fruit is ripe, while Fiorin possesses a long acute ligule, and the branches of the panicle close up to the main axis when the fruit is ripe. Brown Bent-Grass (A. canina L.) is another common useless species which grows upon wet peaty ground. Its flowering glume differs from the other species mentioned in having a long slender dorsal awn. Genus Holcus. Panicle spreading; spikelets two-flowered, upper one male, with awiied flowering glume,
. Agricultural botany, theoretical and practical. Botany, Economic; Botany. CREEPING SOFT-GRASS S3S has a short blunt ligule, and the panicle is open when the fruit is ripe, while Fiorin possesses a long acute ligule, and the branches of the panicle close up to the main axis when the fruit is ripe. Brown Bent-Grass (A. canina L.) is another common useless species which grows upon wet peaty ground. Its flowering glume differs from the other species mentioned in having a long slender dorsal awn. Genus Holcus. Panicle spreading; spikelets two-flowered, upper one male, with awiied flowering glume, lower one bisexual, with awnless flowering glume; empty glumes keeled. Yorkshire Fog: Woolly Soft- Grass {Holcus lanatus L.).âAn extremely common grass about a foot or 18 inches high, with soft woolly hairs on its leaf- sheaths, blades, and spikelets. It has a tufted habit; the awn of the flowering glume of the male flower is bent like a fish- hook, and scarcely visible above the empty glumes. Creeping Soft - Grass {H. mollis L.) is similar in general appearance, but more locally distributed in the country than Fig. , Panicle of Yorkshire Fog(na- , 1 â . T tural size). the precedmg species. In some B, Spikelet (twice natural size). districts it is common, especially on sandy soils and by the side of shady woods and hedges. It differs from the above by having somewhat extensive rhizomes, and the awn of the flowering glume of the male flower is nearly 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 Percival, John, 1863-1949. New York, H. Holt
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