. 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. Genus 97. GRASS FAMILY. 267 97. PUCCINELLIA Pari. Fl. Ital. 1: 366. 1848. Perennial grasses, with flat or involute leaf-blades and contracted or open panicles. Spikelets 3-several-flowered. Lower scales empty, obtuse or acute, unequal; flowering scales obtuse or acute, rounded on the back, 5-nerved, the nerves very obscure or almost wanting. Palet about equalli
. 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. Genus 97. GRASS FAMILY. 267 97. PUCCINELLIA Pari. Fl. Ital. 1: 366. 1848. Perennial grasses, with flat or involute leaf-blades and contracted or open panicles. Spikelets 3-several-flowered. Lower scales empty, obtuse or acute, unequal; flowering scales obtuse or acute, rounded on the back, 5-nerved, the nerves very obscure or almost wanting. Palet about equalling the scale. Stamens 3. Styles wanting. Stigmas sessile, simply plumose. Grain compressed, usually adhering to the palet. [Name in honor of Benedetto Puccinelli, Italian botanist.] About 14 species, in all temperate regions. Type species: Poa distans L. Flowering scales iJ4" long or more; plants stoloniferous. • Lower flowering scales i}4"-2" long; spikelets commonly 4-many-flowered. 1. Lower flowering scales not exceeding 1%" long, usually less; spikelets generally 2-4-flowered. 2. P. angustata. Flowering scales less than ij4" long; plants without stolons. Second empty scale less than one-half as long as the first flowering scale, broad, usually obtuse or truncate. Panicle-branches naked below, spikelet-bearing toward the apex; flowering scales 1" long or less, truncate at the apex. 3. P. distans. Panicle-branches spikelet-bearing to the base; flowering scales i"-i%" long, acutish or obtuse at the apex. • 4- P- fasciculata. Second empty scale more than one-half as long as the first flowering scale, usually narrow, obtuse i. Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Pari. Goose-grass. Sea Spear-grass. Fig. 643. Poa maritima Huds. Fl. Angl. 35. 1762. Glyceria maritima M. & K. Deutsch. Fl. 1: 588. 1823. Puccinellia maritima Pari, Fl. Ital. 1: 370. 1848. Stoloniferous, smooth, glabrous, culms 6'-2° tall, erect, or decumbent at the b
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