. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl. Dactylis patens Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 104. 1789. Spartina patens Muhl. Gram. 55. 1817. Spartina juncea Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 94. 1817. 5. caespitosa A. A. Eaton, Bull. Torr. Club 25: 338. 1898. Culms i°-3° tall, smooth. Lower sheaths overlap- ping and crowded; ligule a ring of short hairs; blades i°-i° long, i"-2" b
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl. Dactylis patens Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 104. 1789. Spartina patens Muhl. Gram. 55. 1817. Spartina juncea Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 94. 1817. 5. caespitosa A. A. Eaton, Bull. Torr. Club 25: 338. 1898. Culms i°-3° tall, smooth. Lower sheaths overlap- ping and crowded; ligule a ring of short hairs; blades i°-i° long, i"-2" broad, involute, attenuate into a long tip, smooth and glabrous beneath; spikes 2-10, i'-a' long, usually ascending, more or less peduncled, the rachis slightly scabrous; spikelets z"-A" l°ng) outer scales acute, scabrous-hispid on the keel, the first usu- ally rather less than one-half as long as the second; third scale somewhat scabrous on the upper part of the keel, emarginate or 2-toothed at the apex, longer than the first and exceeded by the palet. On salt meadows and sandy beaches, Newfoundland to Quebec, Florida and Texas. This and Juncus Gerardi, the " Black Grass," furnish most of the salt meadow hay of the Atlantic Coast. Fox-grass, Rush Salt-grass, Three- fork-grass, White-rush, Salt-marsh-grass. Salt-meadow Grass. Fig. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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