Title: American grasses
Identifier: americangrasses03scri (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Scribner, Frank Lamson, 1851-1938
Subjects: Grasses
Publisher: Washington : Gov. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 28. Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze.—a, A portion of the axis of one of the spikes, showing 7 spikelets; band c, spikelets. 28. STENOTAPHRUM Trin. Fund. Agros. 175. 1820. Spikelets 2-flowered, the lower staminate or hermaphrodite, 2-4 in very short spikes imbedded in one side of a flattened rachis, forming a spike-like panicle. Empty glumes 3, the outer one very small, sometimes wanting; the 3d usually with a palea or stami- nate flower in its axil; the 4th (or the 3d glume in the absence of the 1st) con- taining an hermaphrodite flower. Stamens 3. Styles distinct to the base; stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, included within the somewhat rigid glumes and palea, free. Creeping, stoloniferous perennial grasses with short, ascend- ing branches; spreading, flat, or convolute leaves; and spike-like, terminal inflorescence. Species 3 or 4, one of which is widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres; the others are natives of the islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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