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11. Agrostis tenuis Sibth. COLONIAL BENT. (Fig. 666, A.) 

 Culms slender, erect, tufted, usually 20 to 40 cm tall, with short 



stolons but no creeping rhi- 

 zomes; ligule short, less than 1 

 mm or on the culm as much 

 as 2 mm long; blades mostly 

 5 to 10 cm long, 1 to 3 mm 

 wide; panicle mostly 5 to 10 

 cm long, open, delicate, the 

 slender branches naked below, 

 the spikelets not crowded. 91 

 (A. vulgaris With.) Cultiva- 

 ted for pastures and lawns in 



FIGURE 686.-A, Agrostis tenuis. Panicle, X 1; glumes, the northeastern United States ; 

 floret, and ligule, X 5. (Waghorne, Newf.) B, Var. escaped and Well established 



throughout those regions; New- 

 foundland south to Maryland, West Virginia, and Michigan; British 

 Columbia to California (fig. 667); Europe. This species appears not 

 to be native in America ; it has been referred 

 to A. capillaris L., a distinct species of Europe. 

 In older works this has been called Rhode 

 Island bent. Forms of this species are some- 

 times called Prince Edward Island, New Zea- 

 land, and Rhode Island Colonial bent (non- 

 creeping forms) and Astoria and Oregon 

 Colonial bent (creeping forms). 



AGKOSTIS TENUIS var. ARISTA TA (Parn.) 

 Druce. (Fig. 666, B.) Differing from A. tenuis in having lemma 

 awned from near the base, the awn usually geniculate and exceeding 

 the glumes. 91 Fields and open woods, Nova 

 Scotia and Quebec to North Carolina; Alaska to Van- 

 couver Island; northern California; Europe. This 

 form appears to be native, at least in the more north- 

 erly part of its range. 



12. Agrostis humilis Vasey. (Fig. 668.) Culms 

 low, tufted, mostly not more than 15 cm tall; leaves 

 mostly basal, the blades flat or folded, usually not 

 more than 1 mm wide; panicle narrow, purple, 1 to 

 3 cm long, the branches appressed to somewhat 

 spreading; spikelets about 2 mm long; lemma nearly 

 as long as the glumes, awnless; palea about two 

 thirds as long as lemma. 91 Bogs and alpine 



FIGURE 667. Distribution of 



Agrostis tenuis. 



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^ glumes and floret, meadows at high altitudes, Wyoming and Colorado 



to Washington and Oregon (fig. 669). 

 13. Agrostis hendersonii Hitchc. (Fig. 

 670.) Annual; culms about 10 cm tall; 

 ligule 2 to 3 mm long; blades flat or loosely 

 involute, 1 to 3 cm long, about 1 mm wide; 

 panicle condensed, about 2.5 cm long, pur- 

 plish; spikelets short-pediceled, 5 to 6 mm 

 long; glumes subequal, setaceous- tipped ; lem- 

 ma about 3 mm long, finely 2-toothed, awned FlGUR S^^S tion f 

 from the middle, the awn about 1 cm long, 



geniculate, the callus pubescent; palea obsolete. O Wet ground. 

 Known only from Sams Valley, near Gold Hill, Jackson County, Oreg. 



