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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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estern counties, flowering in June and July. Its stemis round and smooth, two feet high; its leaves flaccid,broad, hairy on the upper side, and of a deep greencolour. It is readily distinguished from the nextspecies by its slender spikelets, as well as by its growthamong bushes or trees. (PL 271, fig. I.) 2. B. pinndtum (Heath False Brome-grass).—Spikeerect; sjnkelets nearly cylindrical, in two rows; ainisshorter than the glumellas; root somewhat creeping,perennial. This grass has flat, narrow, rigid, nearlysmooth leaves, and in July is very elegant, especially onthose chalky, upland, heathy places where it attainsgreat luxuriance. It is always an indicator of a poorsoil, and disappears as the land is improved. It is arare grass, growing in open places in several counties,and was, a few years since, exceedingly luxuriant andbeautiful among the grass of Shorncliffe, Kent, whereit sometimes grew to the height of three feet, though itis commonly about two feet high, it bometiuies has a
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