. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ly open, and as the smallspikelets are borne only at the extremities of the wavy branchesthe plant seems but a transient spirit of the wayside that must bebegged to tarry lest it leave ere the hasting dayHas runBut to the even-song. The silvery scales are exquisitely tinted in pink and rose forthe short time that the flowers are open, but as the flowers fadethe scales lose their colour and persist, shining and translucent,long after the seeds have ripened and the stems have died.
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . ly open, and as the smallspikelets are borne only at the extremities of the wavy branchesthe plant seems but a transient spirit of the wayside that must bebegged to tarry lest it leave ere the hasting dayHas runBut to the even-song. The silvery scales are exquisitely tinted in pink and rose forthe short time that the flowers are open, but as the flowers fadethe scales lose their colour and persist, shining and translucent,long after the seeds have ripened and the stems have died. Thisgrass grows in the shade of wooded pastures as well as in the sun-light, where on dry hillsides dark green tufts of the involute root-leaves are frequently seen. Wavy Hair-grass is found at higheraltitudes than are many of the common grasses, and in spring itis the most slender species in blossom until the misty panicles ofFly-away Grass open, wraith-like in their beauty. Tufted Hair-grass (Deschdmpsia caespitdsa) prefers the moistersoil of lake shores and river banks, where the tall stems bear widely 136. WAVY HAIR-GRASS {Dcschampsta flexuosa) One half natural size. Spikelets enlarged by two Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses open panicles tinged with blue and purple. This grass is spokenof by one writer as among the tallest of British grasses, oftenattaining a height of six feet in thatntry, where its stems are oc-casionally used in weaving coarsefloor-mats. Here, theTuf-ted Hair-grass is fromtwo to four feet tall, avariable species with flatleaves, somewhat smallerspikelets, and stouterstems than are seen in Wavy Hair-grass Wavy Hair-grass. Deschdrnpsiaflexu-dsa (L.) Trin. Perennial, 1-2^ ft. tall, slender, erect. Sheaths much shorter than internodes. Ligule \-2 long. Leaves I-j long, involute and bristle-Iike, those of the stem very 2-8 long, widely open, branches hair-like, spreading, wavy, spikelet-bearing toward the extremities. Spikele
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