. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses GREEN FOXTAIL, YELLOW FOXTAIL, BRISTLY FOX- TAIL, AND ITALIAN MILLET These are stout grasses, usually oc- curring as weeds in cultivated lands and by waysides, and blooming in heavy cylindrical spikes of seed-like flowers. Both the Green Foxtail {Setdna vtridis) and the Yellow Foxtail are very common near gardens, and the smooth stems, red-tinged at the base, and bearing flattened sheaths and many leaves, are so
. The book of grasses; an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Grasses; Juncaceae; Cyperaceae. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses GREEN FOXTAIL, YELLOW FOXTAIL, BRISTLY FOX- TAIL, AND ITALIAN MILLET These are stout grasses, usually oc- curring as weeds in cultivated lands and by waysides, and blooming in heavy cylindrical spikes of seed-like flowers. Both the Green Foxtail {Setdna vtridis) and the Yellow Foxtail are very common near gardens, and the smooth stems, red-tinged at the base, and bearing flattened sheaths and many leaves, are so character- istic of the genus that the grasses are easily recognized, even before the blossoming spikes appear. In bloom the two species are distinguished from one another by the colour of the clus- tered bristles which clothe the spikes, as the bristles of Yellow Foxtail are yellow, or even yellowish brown, while the bristles of Green Foxtail are green, as the name implies. Bristly Foxtail (Setaria verticillata) is less common. It is a more slender spe- cies with smaller spikes whose few bristles are downwardly barbed, thus differing from the two preceding species, the tiny barbs of whose bristles point upward. talian Millet (Seidria iidlica) is a grass that has escaped from cultivation and is not unfrequently found in waste places and by roadsides. It is of stout and rapid growth, and the purplish flowering-heads, as they bend with a load of ripened seed, are often six inches or more in length and more than an inch in 77. f*-TT Yellow Foxtail Setaria glauca. 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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