. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 46 QRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) about a third of an inch in diameter; spikelets one-flowered flattened, the glumes equal, united at base, obtuse, with hairj keels; the lemma much shorter, obtuse, and smooth, the awr attached slightly below the middle and bent, the portion exsertec being usually twice as long as the glumes. (Fig. 19.) Means of control Drain the ground and follow with a season of intensive
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 46 QRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) about a third of an inch in diameter; spikelets one-flowered flattened, the glumes equal, united at base, obtuse, with hairj keels; the lemma much shorter, obtuse, and smooth, the awr attached slightly below the middle and bent, the portion exsertec being usually twice as long as the glumes. (Fig. 19.) Means of control Drain the ground and follow with a season of intensive cultiva tion and fertilization before reseeding heavily to better and mucl more profitable grasses, such as red-top anc timothy. SHEATHED RUSH-GRASS Spordbolus vaginifibrus, Wood Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: July to August. Seed-time: August to September. Range: Maine to South Dakota, southward to Florida and Texas. Habitat: Dry, sterile fields; waste places. A thin, dry, and worthless grass whicl should not be tolerated where anything better can be made to grow. Culms tufted, fifteen to twenty inches tall, slender, smooth, divergent, or sometimes erect Sheaths about half as long as the internodes, loose and inflated; leaves short, less than an eighth of an inch wide, smooth beneath rough at base above, involute toward the point, Panicles very numerous, included anc partly concealed in all the upper sheaths, the terminal one only being usually exserted one to two inches long; spikelets thin, the glumes unequal, long-pointed, smooth, the lower one shorter; lemma rough and hairy Rush-grass (Sporobolus fnd exceeded m length by the palea whicl vaginiflorua). x i. is very sharp-pointed. The seed is freeb. Fig. 20. — Sheathed. 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 Georgia, Ada E
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