. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. GRAMINBAE (GRASS FAMILY) 93. w E, saccharoides x II4. 'ong ; palea minute, nerveless. â Tall and stout reed-like perennials, with elon- gated flat leaves, racemes crowded in a panicle and clothed with long silky hairs, especially in a tuft arouud the base of each spikelet (whence the name, from ipiov, wool, and &veos, flower). * Awn terete, straiyht. 1- Hairs at base ofspikelets copious, as long as the glumes or longer; panicle-axis and uppe
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. GRAMINBAE (GRASS FAMILY) 93. w E, saccharoides x II4. 'ong ; palea minute, nerveless. â Tall and stout reed-like perennials, with elon- gated flat leaves, racemes crowded in a panicle and clothed with long silky hairs, especially in a tuft arouud the base of each spikelet (whence the name, from ipiov, wool, and &veos, flower). * Awn terete, straiyht. 1- Hairs at base ofspikelets copious, as long as the glumes or longer; panicle-axis and upper part of culm densely appressed-villous. ++ Panicle loose and open; hairs longer than the glumes. 1. E. saccharoides Miohx. Culm 1-2 m. high, usually with a dense ring of appressed hairs at the nodes ; leaves cm. wide, villous ; panicle tawny or purple. âMoist ground, N. J. and southw., rare. Sept., Oct. Fig. 49. *+++ Panicle dense and compact; hairs about as long as the glumes. 2. E. compactus Nash. Culm 1-3 m. high, villous at the nodes; blades 6-12 mm. wide, usually villous only on the upper surface near the base ; panicle tawny.â Moist ground, N. J. and southw. Aug., Sept. 1- -1- Hairs at base of spikelets rather sparse or want- ing, shorter than the ghimes; culm and axis of panicle glabrous or sparsely villous. 3. E. brevibdrbis Michx. Culm 1-2 m. high, sparingly villous at the nodes; sheaths glabvous ; blades 6-10 mm. wide, scabrous ; panicle purple, narrow, the branches appressed, sparingly silky, appearing striate from the stiff straight awns. â Moist ground, Del. and southw. Sept., Oct. ** Awn flattened and twisted. â i- Panicle pale, axis very villous; basal hairs copious, exceeding the glumes, i. E. divaricHtus (L.) Hitchc. Culm m. high, nodes and upper portion appressed-villous ; sheaths glabrous ; leaves cm. wide ; panicle loose, silky. (£. alopecuroides Ell.) â Moist ground, N. J. to Ga., w. to Ky. and s. Mo. Sept. 1-1- Panicle dark,
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