. 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. Wet sands or brackish marshes along the coast, Maine and Quebec to Delaware. Also in Europe. July-Sept. 3. Agrostis asperifdlia Trin. Rough-leaved Bent-grass. Fig. 489. Agrostis asperifolia Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (VI.) 6: Part 2, 317. 1845. Culms i°-3° tall, erect, or sometimes decumbent at the base, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths usually shorter t
. 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. Wet sands or brackish marshes along the coast, Maine and Quebec to Delaware. Also in Europe. July-Sept. 3. Agrostis asperifdlia Trin. Rough-leaved Bent-grass. Fig. 489. Agrostis asperifolia Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (VI.) 6: Part 2, 317. 1845. Culms i°-3° tall, erect, or sometimes decumbent at the base, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths usually shorter than the internodes, smooth or roughish; ligule i"-3i" long, more or less decurrent; blades I'-JJ' long, 1 "-4" wide, generally erect, flat or involute, scabrous; panicle contracted, 2i'-io' in length, often interrupted or glomerate, the branches 1F-3' in length, erect, spike- let-bearing to the base; spikelets crowded, i"-ii" long, the outer scales subequal, scabrous, especially on the keel; third scale about three-fourths the length of the second, obtuse or subacute; palet minute. Manitoba to Washington, south to western Texas and California. Northern Red-top. 4. Agrostis Elliottiana Schultes. Elliott's Bent-grass. Fig. 490. Agrostis arachnoides Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1 : 134. 1817. Not Poir. 1810. Agrostis Elliottiana Schultes, Mant. 2: 202. 1824. Culms s'-i4' tall, erect, slender, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, smooth or slightly scabrous, strongly striate; ligule 1" long; blades rough, V~2' long, 1" wide or less; panicle 2'-s' in length, usually narrow, sometimes open, the branches slender, naked below, erect or ascending, the lower l'-ii' long; spikelets I" long; outer scales subequal, scabrous on the keel, acute; third scale about three- quarters as long as the first, erose-truncate, acute or 2-toothed, bearing a very finely filiform flexuous bar- bellate awn, 2-4 times its len
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