AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
XXV. 
PuRSUING our notice of Aguatic PLANTs, it 
may be observed that several of our noblest 
Grasses are distinctly of this group; for ex- 
ample, the tall Reed-grass, Phalaris arundt- 
nacea, which is very ornamental, rising several 
feet out of the water; it is a variegated kind 
of this grass which is grown in gardens, and 
called Ribbon-grass, the leaves having white 
and green stripes. With this often appears in 
abundance the very handsome Glyceria agua- 
tica, Reedy Sweet-grass, 3 to 6 feet high, with 
large much-branched and spreading panicles 
of brownish spikelets. There are two other 
species of Glyceria, very different from this in 
general appearance, in shallow wet places, with 
long narrow green spikelets of close-pressed 
flowers, ultimately standing out at right angles 
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