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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 

 awns ; stamens three ; grain free. 



Annual Beard Grass {Pqlypogon monspeliensis) is 

 occasionally 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, 

 round, 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 Beed Grass. 



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. 



