. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. GRASSES GRASSES 371 sandy seashore of Europe and America. Spikelets one-flowered, rather large and chartaceous ; rachilla prolonged as a bristle behind the palea. Inflores- cence a narrow, spike-like panicle. armaria. Link. Beach-grass. (Fig. 537.) A coarse perennial with rigid culms, long, tough, involute leaves and extensively creeping root- stocks, native along the sandy shores of the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic coast as far south as North Carolina. Much used in Europe to bind shift- ing sand, and recently used for the same purpose
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. GRASSES GRASSES 371 sandy seashore of Europe and America. Spikelets one-flowered, rather large and chartaceous ; rachilla prolonged as a bristle behind the palea. Inflores- cence a narrow, spike-like panicle. armaria. Link. Beach-grass. (Fig. 537.) A coarse perennial with rigid culms, long, tough, involute leaves and extensively creeping root- stocks, native along the sandy shores of the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic coast as far south as North Carolina. Much used in Europe to bind shift- ing sand, and recently used for the same purpose in this country, notably at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and on Cape Cod. Propagated by trans- planting young plants. [For further information, see United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletins Nos. 57 and 65.] 18. Agrostis (Greek name for a kind of grass). A genus of grasses including about one hundred species, mostly perennials, distributed over the entire globe in the cooler parts. Spikelets one-flow- ered, the lemma shorter than the glumes and often awned from the back ; palea small or wanting. In- florescence a panicle, varying from contracted and spike-like to very open and dift'use. alba, Linn. Red-top. (Fig. 538.) An upright perennial with short root.'stocks and moderately open and spreading panicles. Palea one-half to two-thirds as long as the lemma. This species is variable. One form (var. vulgaris, Thurb.; A. vul- garis. With.) is more tufted and has more delicate culms and panicles. This form is more frequently found in lawns and open woods. It is sometimes awned. A variety of A. alha, with more contracted panicles and with extensive stolons, is cultivated as a lawn grass under the name of creeping bent. It is especially useful in the Middle Atlantic states, where it is too warm for blue-grass and too cold for Bermuda. In England, A. alba is called Fiorin and bent-grass; in parts of the South it is known as Herd's grass. canina, Li
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