. 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. Genus 40. GRASS FAMILY. 8. Sporobolus angustus Buckley. Dense Rush- grass. Smut-grass. Fig. 471. 5". indicus Nash, in 111. Fl. Ed. 1, 1: 154. 1896. Not. R. Br. 1810. S. angustus Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1862: 88. 1863. Glabrous and smooth throughout, culms i°-4° tall, erect, tufted, simple or rarely sparingly branched. Sheaths few, long, shorter than th
. 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. Genus 40. GRASS FAMILY. 8. Sporobolus angustus Buckley. Dense Rush- grass. Smut-grass. Fig. 471. 5". indicus Nash, in 111. Fl. Ed. 1, 1: 154. 1896. Not. R. Br. 1810. S. angustus Buckley, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1862: 88. 1863. Glabrous and smooth throughout, culms i°-4° tall, erect, tufted, simple or rarely sparingly branched. Sheaths few, long, shorter than the internodes; ligule a ring of very short hairs; blades 1 "-3" wide, attenuate into a long slender point, the lower 8'-i° long, the upper shorter; panicle 4'-is' in length, usu- ally elongated, narrow, spike-like; spikelets |"-i" long, the outer scales unequal, about half as long as the third, obtuse, smooth and glabrous, the lower one shorter and often erose-truncate; third scale acute, somewhat exceeding the obtuse or acutish palet. In meadows and waste places, Virginia to Florida, west to Missouri and California. Also in Bermuda, the Bahamas and the West Indies. Black-seed, Swamp-grass, Sweet-grass. July-Sept. 9. Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth. Sea-shore Rush-grass. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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