Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses 



the many-flowered spikelets of the Brome-grasses. If the 

 scope is used it discloses the thread-like prolongation 

 rachilla lying against the palet which closely £| 



embraces the narrow seed. The slender stems |;| 



bear a profusion of spreading leaves, and the ^j 



whole plant has a slightly unpleasant odour. 



Long-awned \Vood-grass. Brachyelytrum 

 erecium (Schreb.) Beauv. 



Perennial from rootstocks. 



Stem 1-4 ft. tall, slender, erect. Nodes and sheaths 

 downy. Ligule less than \" long. Leaves 2'-6' 

 long, 3"-8" wide, rough above, downy on lower 

 surface, tapering at both ends, flat. 



Panicle 2'-"]' long, narrow, slender, few-flowered, 

 branches erect, i'-4' long. Spikelets i -flowered, 

 narrow, 5"-6" long. Scales 3; outer scales small, 

 unequal; ist scale very minute; flowering scale 

 4"-6" long, 5-nerved, bearing a rough, terminal 

 awn 9"- 1 2" long. Rachilla prolonged and lying 

 as a slender bristle in the groove of the palet. 

 Stamens 2, anthers and stigmas long. Plant has 

 faint unpleasant odour. 



Open woods and moist grounds. June to August. 



Newfoundland to Ontario and Minnesota, south to 

 North Carolina and Missouri. 



TIMOTHY 



"It is full summer now, the heart of June." 



In many of the states Timothy is one of the 

 most common of cultivated grasses, and it is, 

 perhaps, the one most generally known and 

 easily recognized. By waysides and in fields 

 its bright green bayonets rise, stiff and rigid, 

 and tipped with cylindrical flowering-heads 

 which bloom at about the same time as Red- 

 top, a grass with which this species is often 

 associated in the fields, though Timothy is 

 noticeable earlier in the season, when the 

 sunlight, touching the tips of the spikelets, 

 seems to gem the spikes with dew-drops. The 

 flowers are densely crowded, and in bloom the 



micro- 

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Timothy 

 Phleum pralensc 



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