. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . mooth stems, red-tinged at thebase, and bearing flattened sheathsand many leaves, are so character-istic of the genus that the grassesare easily recognized, even before theblossoming spikes appear. In bloom,the two species are distinguished fromone another by the colour of the clus-tered bristles which clothe the spikes, asthe bristles of Yellow Foxtail are yellow,or even yellowish brown, while the bristlesof Green Foxtail are green, as the nameimplies. Bristly Foxtail {Seidria ve
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . mooth stems, red-tinged at thebase, and bearing flattened sheathsand many leaves, are so character-istic of the genus that the grassesare easily recognized, even before theblossoming spikes appear. In bloom,the two species are distinguished fromone another by the colour of the clus-tered bristles which clothe the spikes, asthe bristles of Yellow Foxtail are yellow,or even yellowish brown, while the bristlesof Green Foxtail are green, as the nameimplies. Bristly Foxtail {Seidria vertictUata) isless common. It is a more slender spe-cies with smaller spikes whose few bristlesare downwardly barbed, thus differingfrom the two preceding species, the tinybarbs of whose bristles point upward. talian Millet {Sctdria ildlica) is agrass that has escaped from cultivationand is not unfrequentl\ found in wasteplaces and bv roadsides. It is ot stoutand rapid growth, and the purplishflowering-heads, as the\ bend wilh a loadof ripcMKd seed, are often six inches ormore in lenth and more than an inch in. VcUow FoxtailSelaria ^lauca The Book of Grasses thickness. MiUets were among the most ancient of cultivatedgrains, being planted long ago in China each spring by princes ofthe royal house. And in lake dwellings of the Stone Age thegrain has been found in such quantities that it must be assumedto have yielded the chief bread supply of prehistoric men. Yellow Foxtail. Pigeon-grass. Setaria glauca (L.)Beauv. Annual. Naturalized from Europe. Stem 1-4 ft. tall, smooth, branched, erect. Lower sheaths loose andflattened. Ligule a ring of short hairs. Leaves I-ii long, 2-^wide, somewhat hairy at base. Spike (spike-like panicle) \-^ long, cylindrical, densely flowered, clothedin tawny yellow bristles. Spikelets i-flowered, about i\ long, sur-rounded by a cluster of 5-10 upwardly barbed bristles which rise frombelow the base of each spikelet and exceed the spikelet in
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