. 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. Chaetochloa imberbis (Poir.) Scribn. Per- ennial Foxtail-grass. Fig. 392. Panicum imberbe Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 272. 1816. C. imberbis Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 4: 39. 1897. C. versicolor Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 105. 1898. C. occidentalis Nash, in Britt. Man. 90. 1901. Culms single or somewhat tufted, from a branch- ing rootstoc
. 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. Chaetochloa imberbis (Poir.) Scribn. Per- ennial Foxtail-grass. Fig. 392. Panicum imberbe Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 4: 272. 1816. C. imberbis Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 4: 39. 1897. C. versicolor Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 105. 1898. C. occidentalis Nash, in Britt. Man. 90. 1901. Culms single or somewhat tufted, from a branch- ing rootstock, i°-3° tall; leaf-sheaths glabrous, com- pressed, keeled; blades up to i° long and 4" wide, glabrous, or nearly so; inflorescence i'-3' long, 7"-io" wide, the bristles 4"-6" long; spikelets ij"-ii" long, the first scale about 4 as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, the second scale 3-5-nerved, the third scale 5-nerved, the fourth scale strongly trans- verse-rugose, elliptic, often purple-tipped. In moist or saline soil, Massachusetts to Kansas, south to Florida and Texas. Also in tropical America, and in the Bahamas. 196 4. Chaetochloa viridis (L.) Scribn Panicum viride L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 83. 1762. Setaria viridis Beauv. Agrost. 51. 1812. Chamaeraphis viridis Porter, Bull. Torr. Club, '. 1893. Ixophorus viridis Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 423. 1895. Chaetochloa viridis Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 4: 39. 1897. Culms erect or ascending, i°-3° tall, simple or branched. Sheaths glabrous; blades 3'-io' long, 2"-6" wide, usually scabrous above; spikes i'-4' long; spike- lets about 1" long, elliptic, much shorter than the green or sometimes yellowish, upwardly barbed bristles; first scale less than one-half as long as the spikelet, 1-3-nerved; second and third scales 5-nerved; fourth scale finely and faintly transversely rugose, or pitted, . striate, only moderately convex, equalling or slightly exceeding the second; palet
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