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seed has sometimes been ground into meal, or flour. It 

 would doubtless be valuable to sow for green manuring. 

 Pointed Spear Grass {Glyceria acutiflora) is less 

 common than the preceding species. It is found in wet 

 places from New England to Pennsylvania, resembling 

 ^ the floating manna grass, but with small- 



er, leaves, and flowers twice the length, 

 and less nerved. 



Goose Grass, Creeping Sea Meadow 

 Grass, Sea Spear Grass ( Glyceria mari- 

 tima), Fig. 47, is a beautiful grass, which 

 appears in and around salt marshes, 

 growing from six to twelve inches high, 

 and having a perennial, creeping root. 

 Stem erect, round, smooth; leaves most- 

 ly folded and compressed, roughish on 

 the inner surface ; spikelets linear, with 

 from six to ten florets, not webbed, the 

 outer palea or lower floret tei-minating 

 in an acute point. The flower is seen 

 in Fig. 48. Flowers in July. Grows nat- 

 urally near the sea. This is one of the 

 most valuable of the salt-marsh grasses, 

 being exceedingly relished by stock of 

 all kinds. It is generally 

 considered best when it 

 grows in mixture with 

 other species of plants, 

 as the black grass (Jun- 

 cus bulbosus), for instance, 

 and deserves a passing 

 notice. 



It is very well known 

 that large tracts of salt 



T\g.i1. Oooee Grass. 1%. 48. 



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