. 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. i. Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. Japanese Plume-grass. Fig. 257. Saccharum polydactylon /3 Thunb. Fl, Jap. 43. 1784. Sactharum japonicum Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 328, in part. 1794. Erianthus japonicus Beauv.; R. & S. Syst. 2: 324. 1817. Ripidium japonicum Trin. Fund. Agrost. 169. 1820. Eulalia japonica Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 2: 333. 1832. Misc
. 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. i. Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. Japanese Plume-grass. Fig. 257. Saccharum polydactylon /3 Thunb. Fl, Jap. 43. 1784. Sactharum japonicum Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 328, in part. 1794. Erianthus japonicus Beauv.; R. & S. Syst. 2: 324. 1817. Ripidium japonicum Trin. Fund. Agrost. 169. 1820. Eulalia japonica Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 2: 333. 1832. Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. Oefv. Sv. Forh. 1855: 166. 1856. Stems 3°-6° tall; leaf-blades up to 30 long and 8" wide; panicle 8'-i6' long, its branches erect or ascending; spikelets 2j"-2i" long, yellowish brown, shining, glabrous, encircled at the base with white or purplish hairs equaling or exceed- ing them, the awn 4"-s" long, spirally twisted at the base. Escaped from cultivation at Washington, D. C, and on Long Island; also in Florida. A native of China, Japan and the Celebes. 4. ERIANTHUS Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 54. 1803. Tall generally robust perennial grasses, with long flat leaves, and perfect flowers in terminal panicles. Spikelets generally with a ring of hairs at the base, 2 at each node of the jointed rachis, one sessile, the other with a pedicel, generally i-flowered. Scales 4, the two outer indurated, the inner hyaline, the fourth bearing a terminal straight or contorted awn; palet small, hyaline; stamens 3. Grain oblong, free, enclosed in the scales. [Greek, referring to the woolly spikelets.] About 21 species, natives of the temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres. Besides the following, three or four others occur in the Southern States. Type species: Anthoxanthum giganteum Walt. Awns flat, closely spiral at the base, geniculate ; apex of the fourth scale deeply 2-cleft. Basal hairs twice as long as the yellowish sp
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