232 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS 



GLYCERIA CANADENSIS, ^-(Rattlesnake Grass.) 



Has a spreading panicle, oblong, pyramidal, with drooping spikelets, 

 six or eight flowered, long rough leaves, creeping perennial root, palea 

 awnless, the lower rounded on the back, and flowers in July. 



It resembles quaking grass very much ; in swampy 

 places, and rises from two to three feet high. Doubtful 

 whether it occurs in this State. 



GYMNOPOGON BBEVIFOLIUS, Trin--(<S&ort Leaved Beard 

 Grass). 



Spikelets on long stalks, flower bearing only above the middle, low- 

 er palea short awned, glumes pointed, leaves short, flat and thick? 

 stigmas purple, pencil shaped ; stamens three. 



This is a very rare grass. Found near Tullahoma. 



ABISTIDA GBACILIS, ElL--(S/ender Triple-awned Grass). 



Culms slender, erect, 6-18 inches high with a spike-like virgate pan- 

 icle ; the esxerted lateral awns one third-one half the length of the hor- 

 izontally bent middle one. 



Sandy soil on open sunny places, very small and thin. 

 July September. 

 ABISTIDA DICHOTOMA(Powrty Grass). 



Spikelets small, on short contracted racemes, closely crowded to- 

 gether, very small awns at the sides of the palea, the middle one bent 

 down. Grows in tufts, stems greatly branched, and is from one foot to 

 eighteen inches high. 



It is called poverty grass because it is seldom seen except 

 on old barren fields, too poor for cultivation, and contains 

 no nutriment. 



STIPA AVENACEA, Ij-.(Black Oat Grass). 



It stands generally about two feet high, has an open panicle, and its 

 leaves are almost like bristles. Palea blackish, nearly as long as the 

 glumes, terminated by an awn that is twisted below and bent above. The 

 spikelets are one-flowered, and the flowers are borne on a very slender 

 stalk. It is a perennial grass. 



Not frequent in this State. Near Charleston, Bradley Co. 

 Completely worthless. July August. 



The Bermuda grass, formerly described, and the dispisa- 

 ble Burr Grass, (Cenchrus), are extremely frequent on the 

 shifting sands of the Mississippi river. 



