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closely enfolds the seed until ripe, when it drops to the ground 

 entire. (Fig. 18.) 



Means of control 



Where the ground can be cultivated without danger of loss from 

 washing, the sod should be broken up and put to a tilled crop before 

 reseeding with clover or grasses of a better quality. 



MARSH FOXTAIL 



Alopeciirus geniculdt 



Other English names: Bent Foxtail, 



Water Foxtail, False Timothy. 

 Introduced. Perennial. Propagates 



by seeds and by taking root at 



the lower joints. 

 Time of bloom: June to August. 

 Seed-time : July to September. 

 Range: Newfoundland to British 



Columbia, southward throughout 



the United States ; also in Europe 



and Asia. 

 Habitat: Moist meadows, banks of 



streams, and ditches ; often trouble- 

 some in damp cultivated ground. 



A slender, low-growing grass, with 

 the habit of forming "knees" and 

 rooting at the lower joints ; it is 

 said to be nutritious grazing when 

 young and tender, but yields a very 

 small amount of hay to the acre, 

 and the hay is of poor, harsh quality. 



Culms eight to eighteen inches 

 tall, smooth, simple or sparingly 

 branched, erect above the decumbent 

 base. Sheaths shorter than the in- 

 ternodes, the upper one usually in- 

 flated ; leaves rough, two to six 

 inches long and hardly an eighth of 

 an inch wide. Spikes dense, cylin- FlQ 19 ._ Mars ' h Foxtail (Alo . 

 drical, one to three inches long and pecurus geniculatus). x i. 



