. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses Among our common wayside grasses there are few more beau- Rough Hair-grass, with its shining stems and. tiful than the wonderfully deli cate panicles which glisten in the sun- light like purple cobwebs. When the Fescues are past, and the Red- top is in its glory of midsummer colour- ing, the slender stems of this grass droop by the way- side and may be passed a score of times unnoticed, for, although the floweri
. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses Among our common wayside grasses there are few more beau- Rough Hair-grass, with its shining stems and. tiful than the wonderfully deli cate panicles which glisten in the sun- light like purple cobwebs. When the Fescues are past, and the Red- top is in its glory of midsummer colour- ing, the slender stems of this grass droop by the way- side and may be passed a score of times unnoticed, for, although the flowering-heads are often a foot and a half long and half as broad, the widely spreading branches are so infinitely fine that the panicles seem to have gathered "fern-seed," since they so nearly "walk ; To see the plant in its greatest beauty one should seek an upland plain where the land- scape gardening of Nature has planted the dark green of bush-clover and tick-trefoil against the summer grasses. Here, where the Wild Oat-grass was earlier abundant, and where later the Beard- grasses will endure throughout the autumn,arelarge tufts of Rough Hair-grass — the whole flowering- head, stem, branch, and spikelet, burned to rose- purple by the July sun. Before the panicles ex- pand they are sometimes gathered and sold as "Silk-grass," but the name of Fly-away Grass is more appropriate as the seeds ripen, for the light panicles are soon broken by the wind and drift over the fields as the earliest tumble-weed. The Red-top and its varieties are among the 119 Rough Hair-grass AgTostis hyemails. 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 Francis, Mary Evans. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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