BEARDED WHEAT-GRASS 



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Genus Agropyrum. 



Perennial grasses (sometimes included in the genus Triticum). 

 Inflorescence a spike : spikelets somewhat compressed, three- or 

 more-flowered, transverse to the rachis, that 

 is, the edges of the glumes towards the 

 latter (opposite in arrangement to Lol- 

 iufii) : empty glumes shorter and narrower 

 than the flowering glumes : flowering glumes 

 stiff', with or without a terminal awn. 



Oouch : Quitch : Twitch : Whickens : 

 Creeping Wheat-Grass (Agropyrum repens ||l 



Beauv.). — A perennial grass with long creep- 

 ing rhizomes, and well-known as one of the 

 most troublesome weeds of arable ground. 

 The leaves are flat, smooth, and somewhat 

 ashy green in colour. The inflorescences 

 (spikes) are 2 or 3 inches long, and most 

 frequently observed on specimens growing 

 in hedges and on waste ground, the plants 

 occurring on arable ground being rarely 

 allowed to flower. 



The flowering glumes end in a stiff acute 

 point which is sometimes prolonged into a fig. ^'&^.—A, Spike of 

 short awn. Stock readily eat the young ^^Xef/eTf L"aW,iadf;„'d 



leaves of couch-grass. ''^C,' Spikelet (twice natural 



Bearded Wheat-Grass {Agropyrum cani-''^^^^' 

 mm L.).— A perennial grass of tufted habit, without long 

 rhizomes, and usually found in moist woods and on banks and 

 damp waste ground. It also differs from the preceding species 

 in possessing rough awns on its flowering glumes. 



Bearded Wheat-Grass is useful in producing a fairly large 

 supply of early leaves, which are greedily eaten by all kinds of 

 stock. 



