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the flower of this grass magnified. I am not aware that 

 it has been cultivated in this country. 



8. PoLYPOGON. Beard' Grass. 



Panicle contracted, spike-like, with one-flowered 

 spikelets ; glumes or scales nearly equal, with long 

 rtwus ; stamens three ; grain free. 



Annual Beard Grass {Polypogon monspeliensis) is 

 O-'casionally found near the coast. It may be known by 

 having glumes with awns more than twice their length, 

 growing from ten to fifteen inches high ; stem erect, 

 roundj and a little rough ; five or six leaves, flat, rather 

 broad and acute ; panicle dense, spikelets one-flowered 

 — introduced. It is easily distinguished by the length 

 of its awns or beards. Of no agricultural value. Found 

 at the Isle of Shoals and on the coast southward. 



9. CiNNA. Wood Reed Gh-ass. 



Glumes acute, strongly keeled; the lower smaller, 

 smooth, naked ; lower longer than the upper, with a 

 sharp awn on the back. Stamen one ; grain oblong, 

 free; perennial. Grasses somewhat sweet-scented, 

 from two to seven feet high. 



Wood Reed Grass, Indian Reed, Reedy Cinna 

 (Ginna arundinacea), has spikelets, one-flowered, 

 feathered ; glumes lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled, 

 palese like the glumes, short-awned ; perennial. Stems 

 erect and reed-like, three or four feet high. The spike- 

 lets are green, or of a slight purplish tinge. Moist 

 woods and swamps ; common at the West and South, as 

 well as northward. Flowers in July and August. 

 Panicle large, hairy, rather dense. A large, rank grass, 

 differing from others in having but one stamen in each 

 flower. Of no special agricultural value. 



