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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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er spike, sometimes three inches long. The acuteglumes are of a delicate sea-green colour, often tippedwith purple. Its slender stem is one or two feet high,the leaves have a tendency to curl, and are frequentlyof a purplish-green hue. It thrives best on dry soils.Country people call it Black-bent. (Plate 249, fig. 5.) 4. A. hulbosus (Tuberous Pox-tail). — Stem erect,smooth; panicle spike-like, slender, taper-pointed, hairy;(jlumes acute, not united; awn twice as long as theglumella. Perennial. This is a rare plant, inhabitingwet salt marshes, and has been found near Yarmouth,and in Wales. The glumes on all the other Britishspecies are united at the base, but these, as may beseen by a magnifying glass, are entirely distinct. Thestem of this Pox-tail is about a foot high, sometimesprostrate below, and the lowermost knots become large,oval, and fleshy tubers, generally of a rich pm-plc colour.The dense panicle is dark green, about an inch long,and appears in July. (Plate 249, fig. G.)
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BRITISH GRASSES AND SEDGES. 57 5. A. geniciddias (Floating Fox-tail).—Stem ascending,smooth, bent at the joints \ pamcle cylindrical, blunt;glumes united at the base, blunt. Root fibrous andslightly hairy ; aivn inserted at the base of the glumella.Perennial. The specific name of this plant points out aready distinction, for the stem is always kneed, andsometimes the joints are enlarged and fleshy. Thestem is about a foot long, branching below, and inJuly and August is terminated by the sea-green panicle,delicately fringed, and one or two inches in length.The leaves are rather rough on both sides. It is notuncommon in marshy places, and though sometimesfound in dry spots, is far more luxuriant in thosewhich combine moisture and shade, w^here it attainssometimes the height of three feet. Its anthers are ofa purplish-yellow colour. It is not a valuable grass tothe agriculturist. (Plate 249, fig. 7.) 6. A. fulcus (Orange-spiked Fox-tail).— /S/e;/? kneed atthe joints; panwle spiked, c

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