Identifier: bookofgrassesill00franuoft (find matches)
Title: The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Francis, Mary Evans, 1876-1941
Subjects: Cyperaceae Grasses -- United States Juncaceae
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WOOD SPEAR-GRASS (Poa sylvestris). Natural size Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses phylla) are the earliest of the genus and are found in woodsfrom New York State southward. They bloom in March, whenthe first arbutus opens, and are slender grasses, with loose panicleswhich bear but a few green spikelets at the extremities of thebranches. Each flowering scale in the majority of the species of this genusshows a small tuft of cobwebby hairs at the base, and under themicroscope this tuft forms a distinguishing feature by which thegrasses may be recognized. In Canada Blue-grass and FlexuousSpear-grass the tufts are lacking, but the flowering scales aredowny below the middle. Low Spear-grass. Dwarf Meadow-grass. Pda dnnna L. Root annual. Naturalized from Europe. Stem 2-12 tall, erect or spreading, flattened. Sheaths loose. Liguleabout i long. Leaves §-4 long, about i wide, flat. Panicle ^-4 long, pyramidal, open, often i-sided, branches short. Spike-lets 3-6-flowered, about 2 long. Ou

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