. Grasses and forage plants. A practical treatise. Comprising their natural history comparative nutritive value; methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing; and the management of grass lands in the United States and British Provinces. Grasses; Forage plants. 148 PIKGEB-SPIKED WOOD GBASS. in a panicle, and clothed with long, silky hairs. Stamens one to three. Grain free. Woolly Beabd Geass {Erianthus alopecuroides) is found on the wet pine barrens of New Jersey, in Illinois, and at the South. It grows from four to six feet high; woolly-bearded at the joints; panicle con- tracted ; silky hairs
. Grasses and forage plants. A practical treatise. Comprising their natural history comparative nutritive value; methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing; and the management of grass lands in the United States and British Provinces. Grasses; Forage plants. 148 PIKGEB-SPIKED WOOD GBASS. in a panicle, and clothed with long, silky hairs. Stamens one to three. Grain free. Woolly Beabd Geass {Erianthus alopecuroides) is found on the wet pine barrens of New Jersey, in Illinois, and at the South. It grows from four to six feet high; woolly-bearded at the joints; panicle con- tracted ; silky hairs longer than the spikelets. Short-awned Woolly Beard {Erianthus hrevibarbis) is also found on low grounds, in Virginia and southward, growing from two to five feet high, and somewhat bearded at the upper joints. Panicle rather open. 64. Andropogon. Spikelets much the same as in the preceding, genus, bearing a neuter or staminate lower flower; glumes and paleae often wanting; upper flower perfect; glumes awn- less ; lower palea awned. Flowers in panicles and spikes. Most of these grasses are coarse and hard perennials, having lateral or term- inal spikes, commonly clustered or digitate, with the rachis hairy or feathery-bearded. Finger-spiked Wood Grass {Atv- dropogon furcatus) grows about four feet high ; leaves nearly smooth; spikes digitate, or general- ly by threes and fours ; lower flower awnless; the spikelets rough- ish, downy; the awn bent. Flowers Fig. 124. in September. A spike of this grass is shown in Fig. 124, a part of it enlarged in Fig. 125, its pistil in Fig. 126, its glumes in Fig. 127. It is com- mon on sterile soils, rocky banks, and 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 Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889; Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889. Practical treatise on
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