Fig. 82. ANTHOXANTHTJM ODORATUM L. Sp. PL 28. 1753. SWEET VER- 

 NAL-GRASS.— A sweet-scented grass, with slender, erect, tufted culms, flat leaf- 

 blades, and narrow, spike-like terminal panicles 2-10 cm. {V-i') long. .Spike- 

 lets (a )6-8 mm. (3"-4") long, the very unequal outer glumes inclosing the 2-lobed 

 and awned inner pair (?>), which exceed the broadly truncate and short flow- 

 ering glume (o).— A Vjundantly naturalized in lawns, fields, and Avaysides from 

 Newfoundland and Ontario to North Carolina and Tennessee. (Europe, north- 

 western Asia, and northern Africa.) May to September. 



A sweet-scented grass of little agricultural value. In New Zealand it is re- 

 garded a weed. The slender stems have been used in the manufacture of 

 imitation Leghorn hats. 



