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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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e silver green accord with thesilver sands. Marram Grass. Beach Grass. Sea Sand-reed. Amm6-phila arenaria (L.) Link. Perennial, from extensively creeping rootstocks.Stem 2-4 ft. tall, stout, rigid, erect. Ligule a minute ring. Leaves 6-24 long, 2-6 wide, gray-green, smooth on lower surface, ribbed and rough on upper surface, soon involute.Spike-like Panicle 5-14 long, cylindrical, green, densely flowered, 5-9 in diameter. Spikelets i-flowered, 5-6 long. Scales 3, compressed; outer scales about equal, acute; flowering scale nearly as long as empty scales and bearing a tuft of short hairs at the base; palet slightly shorter than flowering scale. Rachilla prolonged. Stamens 3, anthers white.Sandy beaches along the coast. July to October.New Brunswick to Virginia, also on the shores of the Great Lakes, and in California. WOOD REED-GRASS AND SLENDER WOODREED-GRASS Leafy stems of Wood Reed-grass arrest the attention beforethe ample panicles are visible, for, although this grass does not 128
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Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses bloom until late summer, the reed-like stems, frequently shoulder-high, and bearing broad, soft leaves, are common in July in wooded swamps and by shaded streams. When the many-flowered pani-cles first appear they are pale green,contracted, and almost silky; later,as the flowers open, the multitudeof hair-like branches spread from theflowering-head and the spikelets areoften tinged with purple, while as theseeds ripen the panicles are againcontracted as before blossoming.Slender Wood Reed-grass (Cinna lati-folia) is also a grass of late summer, andthough in many localities this species is lesscommon than Wood Reed-grass it is notinfrequently found in deep woods and onmountainsides. It is more slender thanthe preceding species and bears a lessdensely flowered panicle of spreading ordrooping branches. The flowers of these grasses have but onestamen, and the palets are remarkable inthat they show but one nerve.

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