. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . SLKXIMiR WILD RVE (Elymus .<:lrialiis). One half natural size. NODDING V\1LD RVK {Elymus (anailtusii). Uir- liall maural size. Spikelcl natural size Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses SEA LYME-GRASS, TERRELL-GRASS, SLENDER WILDRYE, AND NODDING WILD RYE Members of this genus have proved their usefulness in manyways. The stems have been used for thatching and have beenformed into a coarse fabric; the seeds have furnished an article offood to primitive tribes; and even so lon
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . SLKXIMiR WILD RVE (Elymus .<:lrialiis). One half natural size. NODDING V\1LD RVK {Elymus (anailtusii). Uir- liall maural size. Spikelcl natural size Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses SEA LYME-GRASS, TERRELL-GRASS, SLENDER WILDRYE, AND NODDING WILD RYE Members of this genus have proved their usefulness in manyways. The stems have been used for thatching and have beenformed into a coarse fabric; the seeds have furnished an article offood to primitive tribes; and even so long ago as the eighteenthcentury a saline species with extensively creeping rootstocks wascultivated in Europe to preserve the shifting sands of northerncoasts. In the reign of William 111, the Scottish Parliament passed anact preservation of Sea Lyme-grass {Elymus arenarius);later, in the time of George I, the British Parliament extended theoperation of this law to the coasts of England, and made it a penaloffence for a person to cut the grass or to be found in possession ofit within eight miles of the coast. This species, the Sea Lyme-grass,is found in America, but
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