A text-book of grasses with especial reference to the economic species of the United States . w panicles, theblades mostly short and ap-pressed. Native along the NorthAtlantic coast of America andEurope, and the Pacific coastfrom central California to BritishColumbia. The form cultivatedfor lawns appears to have beenderived from this. Rhode Island bent. Inbotanical literature this namehas been applied to Agrostiscanina L., a grass similar inappearance to A. alba vulgaris,but usually more dehcate, theglumes about 2 mm. long, thelemma about three-fourths aslong as the glumes, bearing alittle bel
A text-book of grasses with especial reference to the economic species of the United States . w panicles, theblades mostly short and ap-pressed. Native along the NorthAtlantic coast of America andEurope, and the Pacific coastfrom central California to BritishColumbia. The form cultivatedfor lawns appears to have beenderived from this. Rhode Island bent. Inbotanical literature this namehas been applied to Agrostiscanina L., a grass similar inappearance to A. alba vulgaris,but usually more dehcate, theglumes about 2 mm. long, thelemma about three-fourths aslong as the glumes, bearing alittle below the middle a bentexserted awn, the palea is a native of Europe andis rare in America. There is noevidence that this species hasbeen cultivated in Europe orAmerica. The seed sold underthe name Rhode Island bent isimported from Europe, and consists for the most part of some formof Agrostis alba, usually of creeping bent, or the form describedabove under A. alhn vulgaris. 235, Calamagrostis Adans.—A large genus of peren-nials growing in the cooler regions of all Fig. 41. Calamagrostis scabra. Plantreduced; spikelet, the floret raised fromthe glumes, X3. (U. S. Dept. Agr., , Bull. 20.) 206 A TEXT-BOOK OF GRASSES Spikelets 1-flowered, the rachilla prolonged; lemma awnedfrom the back, surrounded by a tuft of callus hairs; inflo-rescence an open or contracted panicle. A common con-stituent of native meadows in the northern temperate andarctic regions of America. Bluejoint,C. canadensis (Michx.) Beauv., is com-monly cut for hay from Montana toMinnesota. This is a perennial withcreeping rhizomes, erect culms 3 to 5feet high and a rather open panicleresembling that of redtop. Anotherspecies, pine-grass C. rubescens Buckl.(C. Suksdorfii Scribn.), is an excellentrange-grass in the mountains of easternOregon and Washington. Calamagrostisscabra Presl (erroneously referred to ) (Fig. 41) is a commongrass along the coast of Alaska and inop
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