American grasses (1897) (18149291171)

Title: American grasses
Identifier: americangrasses03scri (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Scribner, Frank Lamson, 1851-1938
Subjects: Grasses
Publisher: Washington : Gov. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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Fig. 64. Lagurus ovatus Linn.—«, The empty glumes; b, flowering glume and palea. 64. LAGURUS Linn. Sp. PI. 81. 1753. Spikeletsl-flowered, hermaphrodite, in dense, capitate panicles. Empty glumes linear, long plumose-ciliate; flow- ing glume narrow, smooth, 2-cleft, the divisions prolonged into slender awns, the dorsal awn arising from above the middle, more rigid, longer, subgeniculate. Palea hyaline, 2-keeled. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct; stigmas plumose. Grain narrow, free within the slightly rigid fruiting glume. A low annual with flat leaves and a long-exerted, ovoid, or oblong, solitary, densely flow- ered, and woolly panicles. Species 1, Southern Europe. Cultivated as an ornamental and for dry bou- quets.