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Fre. 4n. S ARUNDINACEA Linn. Sp. Pl 55. 1753. REED 
CANARY-GRASS.—A stout, erect, glabrous, broad-leafed perennial, 6-15 dm. 
2500 dre with densely flowered panicles 6-16 cm. a) long. Sheaths 
sho: the internodes; ligule 2-6 mm. (1"-3") long, obtuse; leaf-blades 
8-25 p geo ues , 6-16 mm. (3-9) wide, acuminate, sm ooth or scabrous 
Spikelets (a) 5-6 mm. (27,3%) long, with scabrous, 3-nerved outer glumes (b), 
one-fourth longer than the obtuse, pubescent flowering glume (0: as 
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hairy Mole places and in an h water, Nova Scotia to Bri "€ ‘Columbia, 
and southward to 5 , Kansas, Arizona, and California 
(Europe, Asia.) June re ir 
This grass is 5 for cultivation on wet lands and flooded fields and its 
strong and extensively rootstocks make it especially valua uable for 
banks of rivers and ditches. The variety picta, known as ribbon grass, 
crated be: the leaves are variegated with green and white stripes, is cul- 
