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A MANUAL OF FARM GRASSES 



i-nerved, acute, the second 3-nerved and acuminate, a 

 line of minute bristles along the keel; lemmas 5-nerved, 

 bristly along the keel, extending into a short awn at the 

 apex. 



8. Orchard Grass. Two heads or panicles, one in flower, the 

 branches spreading, the other in fruit or seed, showing how the 

 branches close up after flowering. 



Common Names. — In this country this grass is uni- 

 formly known as orchard grass, probably because in .the 



