. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 4r)8 I' Spikelets ^-fJ-tlowercil. in iiciirly sessile clustors, crowded into an (iVdid or cylindrical s|)ikelil<L' panicle, racldlia articulate above the lower i,diinie8, mostly perfect. l']nii»ty ;;liiiiies persistent, jncnibranoiis. nearly equal and pointed; lloral i:lutne .'l-o-toollied lit the apex, the central t(n)th extending,' into a point or s
. Grasses of North America [microform] : the grasses classified, described and each genus illustrated, with chapters on their geographical distribution and a bibliography. Grasses; Forage plants; Graminées; Plantes fourragères. 4r)8 I' Spikelets ^-fJ-tlowercil. in iiciirly sessile clustors, crowded into an (iVdid or cylindrical s|)ikelil<L' panicle, racldlia articulate above the lower i,diinie8, mostly perfect. l']nii»ty ;;liiiiies persistent, jncnibranoiis. nearly equal and pointed; lloral i:lutne .'l-o-toollied lit the apex, the central t(n)th extending,' into a point or short awn; palea :.*d<oeIe(l. Stamens ;5. (Jrain free from the palea. I'erennial tufted jj^rasses with Hat or convolute Icuf-hlades. Huse of tlu^ lower spikelets usually subtended by a irhinielike bract. A snndl ^j^enus of about S species, chiefly fouml in Hurope and western Asia. is nearly allied to Ku'lcrlti and rmi. 1. S. cKKiLiiA (L.) Arduin. Sp. -'iis. /. (;(1S();). : Sesli;hiA. ('iiiioxiti'Ks rd'nilriis \i. sp. IM. ;•• (KT):]). IJootstoeks cree{)ing; culms erect, IT)—K)cin. hi^'li. Leaves of sterile shoots densely tufted, blades rather stitT, abruptly pointed, apex seabrid, those of thi' cidm '^'-I), the up- per about 1 em. \o\\\i. Panicle bluisli-<,'ray, shiiung, I-Ij em. Ion;;. Sj)ikelets mostly in pairs, one sessile, the other on a short pedicel; emi)ty ^dumes thin, acute, faintly nerved, about 5 mm. long; lloral glume oval, ciliate, 3-toothed, 5 mm. ;. S])aringly Fig OO. — Sesleria rip- introduced in ijrass-seeds from Europe. ruled. S|)ikelet. (Uicli- . unison.) Found in Luroi)e and western Asia. 105. (211). Abundo Journ. L. (Jen. Ed. 1: 19 (17:37). Bonax Beauv. Agrost. 77 (18r2), in part. Siolnrldoo Mert. & Koch, Koehl. Deutsehl. Fl. 1:528 (182:5). Aiiiphiduiiax Nees, Lindl. Introd. Xat. Syst. Ed. 2, 449 (1830). Donacium Fries, liot. Xotiser, 131 (184:)). Spikelets 2-G-ll()wered, borne on anam])le painele, racbilla silky- bea
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