. 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. Lolium temulentum L. Darnel. Poison Darnel. Ivray. Fig. 684. Lolium temulentum L. Sp. PI. 83. 1753. Glabrous. Culms 2°-4° tall, erect, simple, smooth. Sheaths overlapping or shorter than the internodes; ligule 1" long or less; blades 4-10' in length, l"-3" wide, smooth beneath, rough above; spike 4'-i2' in length; spikelets 4-8-flowered,5"
. 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. Lolium temulentum L. Darnel. Poison Darnel. Ivray. Fig. 684. Lolium temulentum L. Sp. PI. 83. 1753. Glabrous. Culms 2°-4° tall, erect, simple, smooth. Sheaths overlapping or shorter than the internodes; ligule 1" long or less; blades 4-10' in length, l"-3" wide, smooth beneath, rough above; spike 4'-i2' in length; spikelets 4-8-flowered,5"-o/' long, the strongly nerved empty scale equalling or extending beyond the obscurely nerved flowering scales, which are awned or awnless. In waste places and cultivated grounds, locally natu- ralized or adventive from Europe, New Brunswick to Michigan, Georgia and Kansas. Abundant on the Pacific Coast. Locally a troublesome weed. Bearded Darnel. Sturdy Ryle. Tare. Drunk. Drawke. Dragge. Neale. Cheat. June-Aug. 102. LEPTURUS R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. i: 207. 1810. Usually low annual grasses, with narrow leaf-blades and strict or curved elongated slender spikes. Spikelets 1-2-flowered, sessile and single in alternate notches of the jointed rachis. Empty scales 2, rarely I, narrow, rigid, acute, 5-nerved; flowering scales much shorter, hyaline, keeled, one side turned to the rachis. Palets hyaline, 2-nerved. Stamens 3, or fewer. Styles short, distinct. Stigmas 2, plumose. Grain narrow, glabrous, free, enclosed in the scale. [Greek, referring to the narrow spikes.] Species- 5 or 6, natives of the Old World. Type species: Lepturus repens R. Br. i. Lepturus filiformis (Roth) Trin. Slen- der Hard-grass. Fig. 685. Rottboellia filiformis Roth, Catal. i: 21. 1797. L. filiformis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 123. 1820. Culms 3'-i2' long, decumbent, much branched, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths loose, shorter than the internodes; ligule 1" long, auriculate; blades £'-2' long, 1" wid
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