. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 196 d. Panicle spikelike, rays mostly sessile, first glumo 4-5 mm. long 21 d. Panicle racemose or spreading, first glume ?-!> mm. long 32 1. A. desmantha Trin. & Uupr. Mem. Acad. St. Pctersb. (VI.) MOO (1841)). A slender sparingly-bniuched grass, 30-50 cm. high. Sheaths mostly shorter than the internodes; ligule short clliate; blades in- volute, setaceou
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 196 d. Panicle spikelike, rays mostly sessile, first glumo 4-5 mm. long 21 d. Panicle racemose or spreading, first glume ?-!> mm. long 32 1. A. desmantha Trin. & Uupr. Mem. Acad. St. Pctersb. (VI.) MOO (1841)). A slender sparingly-bniuched grass, 30-50 cm. high. Sheaths mostly shorter than the internodes; ligule short clliate; blades in- volute, setaceous, smooth below, S-'^O cm. long, nnirgins of the blade and sheaths also sometimes ciliate. I*anicle -iniple, few- flowered, 8-15 cm. long, rays scabrous, remote. Empty glumes ciliate, 1-nerved, etjual, 2-tootlu'd, 10-13 mm. long, besides short bristles; floral ghnne about 10 mm. long to the jointed, separate awns, V. Inch are equal and horizontally s})readiug when dry. Texas, livt'crrhon 105T. Texas and Indian Territory. 2. A. tuberculosa Nutt. (ien. 1:51 (1818). Culms 2-5 cm. high, branching below, nodes tumid; the inter- nodes mostly naked, as the l)ranches crowd the sheaths away. Sheaths smooth, twice as long as the internodes, to which they really belong; ligule a ciliate fringe; leaves of sterile shoots very few and short, those of the <'ulm 2-3 in number, blades involute, se- taceous, 10-20 cm. long, scabrous above, smooth below. Panicle rigid, open, spar- ingly bnmched, 10-18 cm. long. Empty glumes brown, 15 IT mm. long, tlie strong nerves scabrid; first glume shorter, the awned tips 5-10 mm. long; floret nearly 15 mm. long, with a hairy pointed callus at the base, and at the apex the three awns are twisted and —Anstida tuberculosa. A, spikelet; a, Horet; 6,cftl- anchylosed or soldered together Tor lous be«rd,.a base. (Scribner.) ,^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ .^^^^^ ^^jji^j^^ ^^^ maturity, the three nearly equal tips become divergent or reflexed for 3-4 Please note
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