. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 94 (GRASS FAMILY) § 1. SCHIZACHi'EIUM (Nees) Trin. Bacemes solitary; joints of the 1. A. scoparius Miohx. Culms tufted, 4-12 drc. high; branches single or in pairs from the upper sheaths; sheaths glabrous or hairy ; blades often hairy above near the base; racemes slender, 2-6 cm. long, joints and sterile pedicels hairy on the margins ; sterile spikelet a single awn-pointed glume, 2-4 mm. long; fertile spikelet about
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 94 (GRASS FAMILY) § 1. SCHIZACHi'EIUM (Nees) Trin. Bacemes solitary; joints of the 1. A. scoparius Miohx. Culms tufted, 4-12 drc. high; branches single or in pairs from the upper sheaths; sheaths glabrous or hairy ; blades often hairy above near the base; racemes slender, 2-6 cm. long, joints and sterile pedicels hairy on the margins ; sterile spikelet a single awn-pointed glume, 2-4 mm. long; fertile spikelet about 7 mm. long; awn bent and twisted. â Dry ground, N. B. to Sask., and' southw. July-Sept. Fig. 50. Var. littorklis (Nash) Hitchc. Culms in large tufts ; the innovations and lower sheaths strongly compressed, glaucous. 50. A. scoparius. {A. Uttoralis Nash.) âSand dunes along the coast, and Two spikelets x l^^. southw. § 2. CAMPYLOMfSCHUS Fourn. Bacemes in fascicles of 2-6 ; joints of the rhachis not clavate. * Pedicellate spikelet sterile, consisting of 1-2 glumes or reduced to a pedicel. â I- Spathes equaling or exceeding the racemes; sheaths keeled. 2. A. glomer^ttus (Walt.) BSP. Culms stout, m. high, leafy; sheaths usually sparsely hirsute; inflorescence bushy branched at the summit of the culm ; xpathes very scabrous; racemes 2; the slender joints of the rhachis and the sterile pedicel clothed with long silky hairs. (A. macrourus Michx. ; A. corymbosus Nash.) â Sandy ground near the coast, Mass. and southw. Sept., Oct. 3. A. virginicus L. Culms rather slender, 5-12 dm. high, sparingly branched above; sheaths smooth or somewhat hir- sute on the margin ; blades usually hirsute above near the base; spathes smooth; racemes 2 or .3, slender; hairs long and silky.âOpen ground, Mass. to 111., Fla., and Tex. Fig. 51. I-^-Bacemes, or some of them, on peduncles exserted beyond the spathes. 4. A. Elli6ttii Chapm. Culms in tufts, flattened at base, 5-10 dm. high; l
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