. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 854 A ''Oiirseporenuial with creeping rootstoeks, blades rigid, narrow and involute. Very nearly related to Calaniovilfa Hack. 1. A. arenaria (L.) Link, Ilort. Herol. 1:105 (1827). Beach- OUASS. Sand-gkass. Antiido arcHdi-ia L. 8p, P]. 83. (irs;]). P.^(inim(( inforalis Bcauv. Agrost. i7(!, /. a, /. i (ISr.'). ('((ha>ui( aroiaria lloth. Fl. Germ. l-
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 854 A ''Oiirseporenuial with creeping rootstoeks, blades rigid, narrow and involute. Very nearly related to Calaniovilfa Hack. 1. A. arenaria (L.) Link, Ilort. Herol. 1:105 (1827). Beach- OUASS. Sand-gkass. Antiido arcHdi-ia L. 8p, P]. 83. (irs;]). P.^(inim(( inforalis Bcauv. Agrost. i7(!, /. a, /. i (ISr.'). ('((ha>ui( aroiaria lloth. Fl. Germ. (KSS). Culms stout, (iO-OO em. higli. Leaves erect. Panicle dense, cylindrical, 13-25 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad. Si)ikelets compressed, 10-12 mm. long. Lmpty glumes com- pressed, liju'ar or lanceolate, scabrous on the keel, first 1-nerved, second 3-nerved; floral glume scabrous, compressed, lanceolate, emarginate, often slightly mucronate; i)alea 4-nerved, hairs and rudiment less than half as long as the spikelet. Atlantic coast and along the Great Lakes; seacoast of the British Isles. Owing to the abumlant hard rootstocks, sometimes 40 feet long, it is excellent for i) the drifting of sands along the shore.' 70. (14Ia). Calamovilfa Hack. True (rrasses, 1];{ (1890). Spikelets 1-flowered. in panicles more or less diffuse, rachilla articulate above the outer glumes, bearing a tuft o<" hairs arouiul the floral glume, not produced beyond it. The empty glumes i)er- sistciit. unequal, chartaceous, thick, compressed-keeled; floral glume and palea of like texture, the former 1-nerved, awnless, thelatter 2-keeled, 2-toothed. ^'ery nearly allied to AmmophUa and Calamagrostis. There are thi'ee species, all Korth American. a. Spikelets mm. lon^. i o X D. 4-5 mm. long o c. Si)ikelets 5-f5 mm. long '.".'.''â ' 1. C. brevipilis (Torr.) Hack. 1. c. Arundo hre'vipilu Tovv Flor. U. S. 1: 95 (1824). Calamagrostis brevipilis A. Gray; Man. Fir,. ^)9.â
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