. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. until the pressure of midsummer was past before giving their seeds to the care of Nature. Among other grasses of late summer the Aristidas are common in dry soil throughout the country. The English name of Three- awned Grass is descriptive of a peculiarity of the genus, as each flowering scale bears triple awns. In Poverty Grass and Slender Aristida the outer awns of the flowering scale are shorter than the middle awn and are upright, while the long m
. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. until the pressure of midsummer was past before giving their seeds to the care of Nature. Among other grasses of late summer the Aristidas are common in dry soil throughout the country. The English name of Three- awned Grass is descriptive of a peculiarity of the genus, as each flowering scale bears triple awns. In Poverty Grass and Slender Aristida the outer awns of the flowering scale are shorter than the middle awn and are upright, while the long middle awn spreads stiffly at right angles to the spike. When the spikelets are comparatively few, as in the species mentioned above, these horizontally spreading awns are so characteristic that from them alone the grasses may easily be recog- nized. Poverty Grass (Aristida IdichStoma) is the smallest of I \ I the eastern Aristidas and _ 11 1 if bears but short awns. Slen- der Aristida has a slightly larger flowering-head whose horizontal awns are fre- quently one half inch in length. The panicles of Purplish Aristida are long and very bristly; the outer awns of each flowering scale nearly equal the horizontal middle awn in length, and 102. Slender Aristida Aristida gracilis Purplish Aristida Aristida purpurasccns. 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 Francis, Mary Evans. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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