BAMBUSE^. 



659 



short-pointed, 17-nerved, margins ciliate ; palea equal to its glume, 

 2-toothed, 11 -nerved, two of 

 wliich are ciliate. 



Arkansas, Worthington for 

 U. S. Dept. Agricul. 



Banks of the larger rivers 

 in the Southern States. 



The young growth is some- 

 times used for forage ; the 

 mature stems for fish-rods, 

 scaffolds for drying cotton, 

 pieces for pipe- stems and pipes, 

 and the bottoms of chairs, 

 mats, and for other purposes. 



Var. tecta (Walt.). 

 Switch-cane. Small Cane. 

 Reed. Arundinaria tecta 

 Muhl. Desc. Uber. 101 (1817). 

 Arundo tecta Walt. Fl. Car. 

 81 (1T88), teste Muhl. 



Culms sufiruticose, slender, 



branching, 60-300 cm. high. 



Sheaths bearded at the throat, 



often jDurple ; blades linear- xIl 



lanceolate, acuminate, nearly 



smooth. Spikelets solitary or Fig. 126. — Arundinaria macrosperma. 



, , „ ,. , J., spikelet; a, floret. (Scribiier.) 



racemed on leafless radical 



culms, lance-elliptical, 2-3 cm. long, 5-9-flowered; first empty 



glume oval, abruptly pointed, T-nerved, 5 mm. long ; second oval, 



abruptly pointed, 15-nerved, 9 mm. long ; floral glume ovate, 



mucronate, 17-nerved, 13 mm. long; palea emarginate, equalling 



its glume, about 13-nerved, hispid on 2 nerves. 



Virginia, CliicTcering for U. S. Dept. Agricul. 798. 



General W. Monro, in his Monograph, says: "This one species 

 bears no less than nine different generic and nineteen speciflc names. 

 It varies much in form.'' 



Swamps, Maryland, Illinois, and south. 



