226 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS 



ARUNDINARIA MARCOSPERMA, MiGhx--(2xw0e Cane,) and 



ARUN DINARIA TECTA, Michx.--(<Stootf Cane). 

 Are very generally known, and have already been mentioned. 



TJNIOLA LATIFOLIA Michx-- (Broad-leaved Spike Grass). 



This is a very graceful grass, well-known to ladies for making winter 

 bouquets. Flowers in July on cliffs and river banks. Leaves nearly 

 one inch wide, spikelets large, f inches long and broad, very flat, 

 looking like compressed, ovoid, drooping from long capillary pedicels. 

 Of little value lor forage. 



UNIOLA GRA.CILIS Michx.- 



Another very different looking species, deserves no discription. 

 TRITICUM REPENS, L.--(OmeA Gross.) 



Spikelets, 4-8, flowered, glabrous or nearly so, glumes, 5-7-nerved, 

 rhachis glabrous, but rough on the edges. Occurs here and there in 

 fields and gardens. Very troublesome. 



TRITICUM CANINUM, Linn- (Fibrous-rooted Wheat Grass). 



Spikelets four to five flowered ; glumes 3-5 nerved ; 

 rhachis rough and bristly on the edges; awn twice the length 

 of palet, leaves flat and roughish. 



It resembles very much the "Couch" grass, only it has 

 no creeping roots like the latter. It is perennial, and is 

 usually found in cultivated fields. It grows from two to 

 three feet high, and flowers in August. It is greedily eaten 

 by stock, but its habit of spreading in grain fields render* 

 it rather a pest than useful. Its occurrence here is doubt- 

 ful. 



