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FLOWERS OF LAKES, RIVERS, ETC. 



below. The leaf-sheath is round, turned one way, and smooth. In a 

 wind the leaf turns partly round like a flag. 



The panicle is nodding, purple, soft and silky, branched, large, and 

 dense, with smooth branches. The spikelets are 5 -flowered, the 



REED (Phragmites communis, Trin.) 



flowers longer than the glumes, and glossy. The empty ones are the 

 flowering glumes, awl-shaped, and longer. The florets in the spikelet 

 are distant, with long silky hairs which form a parachute. 



The Reed is 3-10 ft. high. It flowers in July and August. The 

 plant is a herbaceous perennial, propagated by soboles or creeping 



