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rootstock creeping. (Holcus odorktus, L.) — Moist meadows, chiefly northward 

 near the coast and along the Great Lakes. May. — Culm l°-2° high, with 

 short, lanceolate leaves. Spikelets chestnut-color ; the staminate flowers strongly 

 hairy-fringed on the margins, and the fertile one at the tip. (Eu.) 



2. H. alplna, Eoem. & Schultes. Panicle contracted ( 1 ' - 2' long) ; one 

 of the staminate flowers barely pointed or short-awned near the tip, the other 

 long-awned from below the middle ; lowest leaves very narrow. — Alpine moun- 

 tain-tops. New England, New York, and northward. July. (Eu.) 



55. ANTHOXANTHUM, L. Sweet Veknal-Gbass. (PI. 13.) 



Spikelets spiked-panicled, really 3-flowered ; but the lateral flowers neutral, 

 consisting merely of one palet which is hairy on the outside and awned on the 

 back: the central (terminal) flower perfect, small, of 2 awnless ehartaceous 

 palets, 2-androus. Glumes very thin, acute, keeled ; the upper about as long 

 as the flowers, twice the length of the lower. Squamulffi none. Grain ovate, 

 adherent. {^a.me compounded o( avdos,JlouKr, and avdav, of flowers. L.) 



1. A. ODORX.TUM, L. Spikelets (brownish or tinged with green) spreading 

 at flowering-time ; one of the neutral flowers bearing a bent awn from near its 

 base, the other short-awned below the tip. — Meadows, pastures, &c. Perennial : 

 very sweet-scented in drying. May- July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



56. PHALARIS, L. Canakt-Geass. (PI. 13.) 



Spikelets crowded in a clustered or spiked panicle, with 2 neutral mere rudi- 

 ments (a scale or a pedicel) in place of lateral flowers, one on each side, at the 

 base of the perfect one, which is flattish, awnless, of 2 shining palets, shorter 

 than the equal boat-shaped and keeled glumes, finally coriaceous or cartilagi- 

 nous, and closely enclosing the flattened free and smooth grain. — Stamens 3. — 

 Leaves broad, mostly flat. (The ancient name, from (j)a\6s, shininy, alluding 

 either to the palets or the grain.) 



§ 1 . PHALARIS proper. Panicle very dense, spike-like : glumes wing-keeled. 



1. P. Canakiensis, L. (Canary-Grass.) Annual, l°-2° high; spike 

 oval ; rudimentary flower a small lanceolate scale. — Waste places and road- 

 sides, Massachusetts to Pennsylvania : rare. July -Sept. (Adv. from Eu.) 

 § 2. DfGKAPHIS, Trin. Panicle branched, the clusters open in anthesis: glumes 

 not winged on the back. 



1. P. arundinkcea, L. (Reed C.) Perennial, 2° -4° high; leaves flat 

 (3" - 5" wide ; glumes open at flowering, 3-nerved, thrice the length of the fertile 

 flower ; rudimentary flowers reduced to a minute hairy scale or pedicel. — Wet 

 grounds : common, especially northward. June, July. — Var. pf cta, the loaves 

 striped with white, is the familiar Eibeon-Gkass of the gardens. (Eu.) 



57 MtLIUM, Millet-Grass. (PI. 13.) 



Spikelets diffusely panicled, not jointed with their pedicels, apparently con- 

 sisting of 2 equal membranaceous convex and awnless glumes, including a single 

 coriaceous awnless flower : but theoretically the lower glume is wanting, while 



