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Fig. 411. Phalaris arundinacea Linn. Sp. PL 55. Reed 

 Canary-grass. — A stout, erect, glabrous, broad-leafed perennial, 

 6 to 15 dm. high, with densely flowered panicles, 6 to 16 cm. Jong. 

 Spikelets (a) 5 to 6 mm. long, with scabrous, 3-nerved outer glumes 

 (6), one- fourth longer than the obtuse, pubescent flowering glume. — 

 Moist places and in shallow water, Xova Scotia to British Col- 

 umbia, and southward to Maryland, Tennessee, Kansas, Arizona, 

 and California. [Europe, Asia.] June-September. 



