. 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. 402 A11 (1S14). Motiorvru croinafint Kll. Hot. S. (*. iV CJii, 1:77 (1817). Ctvnhim AmerUanuin Sprong Svst. 1 : '-J74 (IS'^r)), 'roOTIIACIIK-GKASS. IVrt'iiiiiiil; culms 50-100 cm. high, rough, with u tuft of old (k'lul slu'iiths at the haso. HlacU-s narrow, involute, 5-12 vaw. long, those of sterile .slioots longer. S|)ike 1 (rarely ;.'), 4-10 cm. l(»ng. I'Mrs
. 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. 402 A11 (1S14). Motiorvru croinafint Kll. Hot. S. (*. iV CJii, 1:77 (1817). Ctvnhim AmerUanuin Sprong Svst. 1 : '-J74 (IS'^r)), 'roOTIIACIIK-GKASS. IVrt'iiiiiiil; culms 50-100 cm. high, rough, with u tuft of old (k'lul slu'iiths at the haso. HlacU-s narrow, involute, 5-12 vaw. long, those of sterile .slioots longer. S|)ike 1 (rarely ;.'), 4-10 cm. l(»ng. I'Mrst empty glunu; l-nerved, hyaline. '^ mm. long, includ- ing the short point, second A mm. long, the nerves warty-glandular, awn ahove the middle, about 4 mm. long, third 4 mm. long, ciliate, ;}-nerved, short-awncd, divided at the apex, fourth or lloral glume much like the third, ciliate. i\.h mm. long, enclosing a small hya- line palea. The fifth glume (a lloral glume) mm. long, ciliate, IJ-nerved, a short awn hack of theai)ex; palea longer than its glume. Next lloret snniller neutral, with a snndl glume ahove. Taste of the plant very ])ungent. North Carolina, Mi-Ctirf/ti/; Alabama, .}fi)/n'; l-'lorida. Ptihiirr 018, (Iurlis>;>. Dept. Agri(!ul., also :54:i7: Mississi[)pi, Tnnii. Low pin»'-l»arreiis, southern \'irginia and southward. S(i. (114). ChloRIS Swartz. I'rodr. :?5 (17SS). EusturhiisDv^w Hull. Soc. riuloni. ;i: IHS (ISOO). SrhuUcsia Spreng. I'ugill. 2: 17 (1815). PharvUitria Willd. Steud. ^'onl. Kd. '.>, 1: ;}5;i (1840): 2:;n;} (1841). M((rn>.sfttr/ii/u Ilochst. A. \lwh. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2:408 (1851). Chhroides Fisch. Kegol- in Iiul. Sem. Ilort. Petroj). 28 (I8(i;{). llrtcrulepis Ehrenb. Hoiss. Fl. Orient. 5:554 (1881). 8pikelcts 1-flowered |or 2-'.5-flowered], sessile, crowded in 2 rows on one siile of a rachis, rachilla arti(!ulate above the lower glumes, extending beyond the flower, bearing a glume (or male flower). The tw'o lower glumes e
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