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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IE MARSH HAS BEEN COVERED WITH SAXD AND THROUGH IT STRUGGLE STRAY PLANTS OF FOX-GRASS. (Sparlina patcm)
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FOX-GRASS (Spartina patens). Natural size Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses \ w areas with its smooth, dark green leaves and stems and its vividlycoloured flowering spikes of purple flecked with yellow anthers. This and the Black-grass — really a rush—are valuable plants of the seaside, and their low, dense growth of leaves and stems, so fre-quently seen by tidewaters, is easily recognized by the characteristic dark green colour. These plants yield a large amount of the salt hay gathered each year, and the wiry stems of Fox-grass are much used in packing. This, also, is one of the many plants that have been proved to yield fibres suitable for spinning and weaving, and it is said that although the fibre from the stems of Fox-grass is defi-cient in length it is equal in strength and fineness to that of flax. Creek Sedge advances into the water and one must wait until low tide before approaching by land the pale green spikes which are so beautifully fringed with their white ant

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