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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i-flowered, about 2 long, narrow, onhair-like pedicels. Scales 3; outer scales slightlyunequal, acute; flowering scale bearing a slender,terminal awn 3-io long. Stamens 3. Sandy and rocky soil and open woods. August toOctober. Massachusetts to Missouri, Florida, and Texas LONG-AWNED WOOD-GRASS The narrow brooks threading their waythrough woods and swamps are the haunts ofmany plants whose location makes them themore rare to the ordinary pedestrian. Here,where the bladderwort hangs its tiny yellowsunbonnets far from travelled paths, and thewild calla unfolds pallid against the velvetmud, may be found the Long-awned Wood-grass growing luxuriantly on a dryer bank ofthe brookside. The grass is distinctly graceful, and at firstglance the slender, nodding panicle mightsuggest the flowering-head of a Brome-grass,but the form of the leaves separates the Long-awned Wood-grass at once from that genus,while the one-flowered spikelets differ from108 \ m Long-awned Wood-grassBrachydylrum crccliim
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LONG-A\V\EI) WOOD (iKASS (Brachyclytrum ernlum). One half natura. size. Spikclct cnlarKcd by two and a half Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses

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