Identifier: britishgrassesse00prat (find matches)
Title: The British grasses and sedges
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893
Subjects: Botany Grasses
Publisher: London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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; hairs long. Perennial. This grass,with its slender stem three or four feet high, and grace-ful silky panicle, with an abundance of scattered spike-lets, is far more common than the last, and in moisthedges ofteii towers above the bushes, its glossy clusterof flowers being, in June, of a rich purple hue, muchsmaller, but much prettier in colour than that of thelast species. It is somewhat local, but the author hasfound it in woods near Hythe in Kent, growing to theheight of five feet. (Plate 252, fig. 2.) 3. C. stricta (Narrow Small-reed).—Panicle erect,close ; (jluines acute, rough on the keel; f/lmnellas as longas the glumes, longer than the hairs; aicn straight.Perennial. This reed is the smallest of tlie species,and has an upright stem two or three feet high; bear-ing, in June, a close panicle of many spikclets, aboutthree inches long, and tinged with ))nrplish-blue colour.Its leaves are broad and rigid. It is a very rare plant,inhabiting bogs and marshes, and is readih distin-
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nUOWV IJKNl 1,1Auro BRITISH GRASSES AND SEDGES. 69 guished from the otlu^r species by its general appearance,and the colour of its flowering clusters. (Plate 252,fig. 3.) 14. Agrostis (Bent-grass). 1. A. canina (Brown Bent-grass).—Branches of thepanicle long, slender, spreadnig, when in full flower,and erect; glumes unequal, rough at the keel; (jlumellasingle, toothed, awned from below the middle. Peren-nial. This is a very abundant grass on boggy meadows,and one often gathered for its delicate beauty. Itsglossy stem is one or two feet high, prostrate below;and in June and July its airy clusters, formed of nume-Ious small spikelets on thread-like branches, vary intint, from pale yellowish-green, to every hue of purple.It generally growls about the moors in little patches,and it has a creeping tufted root, and roughish leaves.(Plate 253, fig. 1.) 2. A. setdcea (Bristle-leaved Bent-grass).—Panicleclose, oblong; hrancJies m\A Jloicer-stalks rough; glumesunequal; outer glumeUa toothed

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