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CHAPTER VII 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 

 (N.B. The Genera are arranged in alphabetical order) 



Agropyrum repens, Beauv. (Couch-grass.) (Fig. 27.) 

 A perennial, creeping very extensively by means of numerous, 

 long, stout, and sharply-pointed rhizomes which bear rudimentary 

 leaves and adventitious roots at the nodes. Leaf-sheaths split, 



Fig. 27. Spikate inflorescence of Agro- Fig. 28. Agropyrum cani- 

 pyrum repens, about f nat. size. Left num, about | nat. size, 

 hand, ordinary awnless type. Right 

 hand, var. aristatum. 



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