. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. Boutelona. BOUTELOUA, (-MusM Grass.) Spikelets crowded and closely sessile in two rows on one side of a flattened rhaehis, comprising one perfect flower below and one or more sterile or rudi- mentary flowers. Glumes convex keel- ed, the lower one shorter. Perfect flow- . er with the 3-nerved lower palet 8- 1 toothed, or cleft at the apex,- the 2-nerv- ed upper palet 2-toothed; the teeth, at least of the former, pointed or subulate-, awned. Stamens 3, anthers orange col- ored or red. A port
. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. Boutelona. BOUTELOUA, (-MusM Grass.) Spikelets crowded and closely sessile in two rows on one side of a flattened rhaehis, comprising one perfect flower below and one or more sterile or rudi- mentary flowers. Glumes convex keel- ed, the lower one shorter. Perfect flow- . er with the 3-nerved lower palet 8- 1 toothed, or cleft at the apex,- the 2-nerv- ed upper palet 2-toothed; the teeth, at least of the former, pointed or subulate-, awned. Stamens 3, anthers orange col- ored or red. A portion of the compound spike of the natural size, (1); and a spike- let displayed and magnified, (2); the flowers raised out of the glumes. BOUTELOUA CUKTIPENDULA, (JBorse Shoe Orats). Culms tufted from a perennial root stalk which spreads in a semi-circu- lar form like a horse-shoe. LeaveB narrow, spikes one-half inch or less in length, nearly sessile. Flowers scabrous. It grows abundantly in the pine barrens of Middle Tennessee, (Lavergne, Smyrna), and is one of the best pasture grasses. MUHLENBERGIA, Schreh.~(Drop-seed Grass.) Spikelets one-flowered, in contracted or rarfily in open panicles. Glumes mostly ovate, acute or brist- ly pointed, persistent; the lower rather smaller or minute. Flower Yery short, stalked or sessile in the glumes; the palets usually minutely bearded at the base, herbaceous, deciduous with the enclosed grain, often equal, the lower 3-nerved, mucronate or awned at the apex. Stamens three. The most species of this genus look like a diminu- tive decumbent cane, from the dry, somewhat stiff aspect of the leaves and the hard and polished, really cane-like condition of the stems. A. magnified closed spikelet of Muhlenbergia syl- vatica, (1); the same with the open flower raised out of the glumes, (3); its minute and unequal glumes more magnified (4); and an open spikelet of the same, (5).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page i
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