This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...to Oregon (?). August, Fig. 139. Agrostis diegoensis Vasey (A. foliom Vasey); Beal, Grasses N. Am., 2: 328.--A strong-growing, leafy perennial ti to 10 dm. high, from creeping rootstocks, with pale-green, narrow, and many-flowered panicles 15 to 20 cm. long. Spikelets 2 to 3 mm. long; flowering glume ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...to Oregon (?). August, Fig. 139. Agrostis diegoensis Vasey (A. foliom Vasey); Beal, Grasses N. Am., 2: 328.--A strong-growing, leafy perennial ti to 10 dm. high, from creeping rootstocks, with pale-green, narrow, and many-flowered panicles 15 to 20 cm. long. Spikelets 2 to 3 mm. long; flowering glume short-awned or awnless; palea wanting.--Mountains of southern California to Washington. May-August. Fig. 140. Agrostis elliottiana Schult. (A. arachnoides EH.). Spider Bent-urass.--A low, branching annual, rarely exceeding 3 dm. high, with narrow, flat leaves and diffuse, capillary panicles. The flowering glume bears a long and very slender awn.--Dry hillsides and old fields, South Carolina to Kentucky and Missouri, south to Florida and Texas. April, May. Fig. 141. Gastridinm lendigenim (L.) Gaudin. (G. australe Beauv.; Milium lendigenim Linn.). Nit-grass.--A smooth annual 1.5 to 6 dm. high, with flat leaves and a strict, spike-like panicle 6 to 12 cm. long; cultivated for ornament.--Hills, naturalized, California and Oregon; also in Texas. Southern Europe. June, July. Fig. 142. Calamagrostis crassiglumis Thurb.; Beal, Grasses N. Am., 2: 353 (as a var. of . neglccta).--A rigid, erect perennial 1.5to4 dm. high, from creeping rootstocks, with long basalleaves anddense, oblong, spike-like panicles 4 to 6 cm. long.--Wet ground and gravelly lake shores, California to Vancouver Island. July, August. Fig. 143. Calamagrostis breviseta (A. Gray) Scribn.; Britton und Brown Ill. FL, 1: 164 (C pickeringii A. Gray). ShortAwn-kd Reed-grass.--A slender perennial 3 to 5 dm. high, with flat leaves and narrow or subpyramidal, rather densely flowered purplish panicles 8 to 12 em. long.--Moist ground, Newfoundland, Cape Breton Island, and Labrador to...
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