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GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



Fig. 76. Creeping Soft Grass. 



Fig. 81. 



Sweet-scented Ternal. 



awned floret and its creeping root. The flowers of this grass 

 are seen magnified in Figs. 77 and 78. 



Seneca Grass, or Vanilla Grass, (Jiierochloa borealis,') 

 has spikelets three flowered, flowers all with two paleae, 

 branches of the panicle smooth ; grows from twelve to eighteen 

 inches high. Stems erect, round, smooth, panicle somewhat 

 spreading, rather one sided, leaves short, broad, lanceolate, 

 rough on the inner side, smooth behind ; spikelets rather large. 



