. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . sed a score oftimes unnoticed,for, although theflowering-heads areoften a foot and ahalf long and half as broad, the widely spreading branches are soinfinitely fine that the panicles seem to havegathered fern-seed, since they so nearly walkinvisible. To see the plant in its greatest beautyone should seek an upland plain where the land-scape gardening of Nature has planted the darkgreen of bush-clover and tick-trefoil against thesummer grasses. Here, where the Wild Oat-grasswas ear
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . sed a score oftimes unnoticed,for, although theflowering-heads areoften a foot and ahalf long and half as broad, the widely spreading branches are soinfinitely fine that the panicles seem to havegathered fern-seed, since they so nearly walkinvisible. To see the plant in its greatest beautyone should seek an upland plain where the land-scape gardening of Nature has planted the darkgreen of bush-clover and tick-trefoil against thesummer grasses. Here, where the Wild Oat-grasswas earlier abundant, and where later the Beard-grasses will endure throughout the autumn,arelargetufts of Rough Hair-grass — the whole fiowering-head, stem, branch, and spikelet, burned to rose-purple by the July sun. Before the panicles ex-pand they are sometimes gathered and sold asSilk-grass, but the name of Fly-away Grass ismore appropriate as the seeds ripen, for the lightpanicles are soon broken by the wind and drift overthe fields as the earliest tumble-weed. The Red-top and its varieties are among the 119. Rough Hair-grassAgTOSlis hyemalis The Book of Grasses chief grasses of July fields, and in midsummer acre upon acre isclothed by them in varying tones of reddish purple. Perhapsnative in the North and Northwest, Red-top was brought to theEastern States from Europe in the eighteenth century and wascultivated as English Grass, but its various uses and ap-pearances under many conditions of soil and climate have givenit a multitude of names. As Bonnet-grass it was common alongthe valley of the Connecticut River, where the stems wereformerly cut to be braided into hats. As Fioren a variety whichproduces a smooth and velvet-like turf was most highly extolledin England and Ireland as a winter fodder grass, and its sponsorwas at one time caricatured as mowing grass in winter while snowlay upon the ground. The most common form of Red-top isfound in nearly all the states, and as in
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