1 62 FLOWPIRS OF LAKES, RI\KRS, ETC. 



below. 1 he leal-sheath is round, lurned t)ne way, and smooth. In a 

 wind the leaf turns partly round like a flacr. 



The panicle is nodding, purple, soft and silk\-, branched, large, ami 

 dense, with smooth branches. The spikelets are 5 -flowered, the 



Reed (Phragmites communis, Triii.) 



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flowers longer than the glumes, and glossy. The empty ones are tlie 

 flowering glumes, awl-shaped, and longer. The florets in the spikelet 

 are distant, with long silky iiairs which form a parachute. 



The Reed is 3-10 ft. high. It (lowers in July and August. The 

 plant is a herbaceous perennial, propagated by soboles or creeping 



