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^RAMIXEAE (grass FAMILY) 



9. C. cinnoides (Mulil ) Barton. Glaucous ; culms stout, 

 1-1.8 m. high, solitary or few, erect or leaning; leaves very 

 scabrous, sometimes sparingly hirsute, 1.5-3 dm. long, 5-10 mm. 

 wide (those of the innovations shorter, narrow) ; panicles 8-17 

 cm. long, tapering to summit, usually much contracted ; spike- 

 lets 6-7 mm. long; glumes keeled., very scabrous, acuminate^ 

 aristate., the tips visually curved outward., exceeding the acuminate 

 lemma which is awned above the middle ; callus-hairs about 

 \ the length of the floret, those of the rudiment copious, con- 

 no. C. cinnoides. fined to the tip., almost equaling the lemma. (C. Nuttal- 

 Spikeiet with de- liana Steud.) — Moist ground, Me. to O. and south w. Fig. 

 tached glumes x 3. HO. 



36. AMM6pHILA Host 



Spikelets 1-flowered, large, awnless, crowded in a long spike-like panicle ; 

 rhachilla prolonged behind the palea into a hairy bristle ; glumes firm, subequal, 

 compressed-keeled, acute ; lemma of like texture, surrounded 

 at base with short hairs, 2-toothed at the apex and mucronate 

 between the teeth ; palea nearly as long, rather firm, the two 

 nerves close together. — A coarse perennial with creeping root- 

 stocks, rigid culms and involute leaves. (Name from &/j.fM)s, 

 sand, and cpLXeip, to love.^ 



1. A. arenaria (L.) Link. (Sea Sand-reed, Psamma, 

 Marram, Beach Grass.) Culm stout, 0.5-1 m. high, branch- 

 ing at the base, from firm running rootstocks ; leaves long, 

 soon involute ; panicle 1-4 dm. long ; spikelets compressed ; 

 glumes and lemma scabrous. (A. arundinacea Host.) — Sandy iii. a. arenaria. 

 beaches, along the coast, N. B. to N. C. ; and on the Great Lakes, inflorescence x Vio- 

 Aug., Sept. (Eu.) — An important sand-binder. Fig. 111. Spikelets x 1. 



112. A. spica-venti. 

 flpikelet with de- 

 tached glume.s X 3. 



37. APERA Adans. 



Spikelets 1-flowered ; rhachilla prolonged behind the palea 

 into a minute naked bristle ; glumes thin in texture, subequal, 

 and slightly exceeding the lemma which bears a slender awn 

 from just below the apex ; palea nearly as long as the lemma, 

 2-toothed. — Annuals with flat leaves and diffuse panicles. 

 (Name from d-n-rjpos, unmaimed ; application obscure.) 



1. A. spicA-vENTi (L.) Beauv. Culms slender, 3-7 dm. 

 high, tufted, erect or geniculate at the lower nodes ; blades 

 linear ; panicle 1-3.5 dm. long, the very slender branches 

 verticillate, spikelet-bearing near the ends ; spikelets 2 mm. 

 long, shining ; lemma scabrous, awn 5-7 mm. long. — Spar- 

 ingly naturalized eastw. June, July. (Nat. from Eu.) Fio. 

 112. 



38. CiNNA L. Wood Reed Grass 



Spikelets 1-flowered ; rhachilla articulated below the glumes, forming a short 

 naked stipe below the floret, and prolonged behind the palea into a minute 

 bristle ; glumes narrow, hispid ulous on the keel; lemma 3-5 -nerved, with a short 

 awn from between the minute teeth of the bifid apex ; palea 1-nerved, or 2-nervea, 

 the nerves close together ; stamen 1. — Tall perennials with flat leaves, conspicu- 

 ous hyaline ligules, and many-flowered nodding panicles. (From /c/i/m, a name 

 used by Dioscorides for a kind of grass.) 



1. C. arundinacea L. Culms 0.5-1.5 m. high, erect, solitary or few together 

 blades 2-3 dm. long, 1 cm. or less vnde (rarely wider;, slightly scabrous ; panicle 



