GRAMINEAE (GRASS FAMILY) 37 
CANARY-GRASS 
Phédlaris canariénsis, L. 
Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to August. 
Seed-time: August to September. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Ontario, southward to Virginia. 
Habitat: Gardens, roadsides, waste places. 
First grown in this country as food for caged birds and for making 
a flour which is used as sizing in cotton manufacture (weaver’s 
glue), this grass has been spread rather extensively through the 
accidental mixture of its seeds with better grasses; it is worthless 
as hay or green forage. (Fig. 13.) 
Culms one to three feet tall, erect, usually simple but sometimes 
branched, smooth. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, rough, 
loose, the ligules rounded and about one Jine long; blades three 
inches to a foot long, nearly a half-inch wide, flat, very rough. 
Spike a short, dense head, about an inch long and nearly half as 
thick, the flattened, one-flowered spikelets crowded and overlap- 
ping ; glumes ovate, keeled, white with green veins. Seeds oblong, 
smooth, shining, well known as the familiar bird food. : 
Means of control 
Prevent seed production, and the weed must disappear as soon as 
all dormant seeds have been stirred to germination and destroyed. 
VANILLA-GRASS 
Hieréchloé odorata, Wahlenb. 
(Savastana odorata, Scribn.) 
Other English names: Sweet-grass, Holy-grass, Seneca-grass, Sweet 
Quack-grass. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. 
Time of bloom: April to May. 
Seed-time: Beginning of June. ; 
Range: Newfoundland to Alaska, southward to Pennsylvania and 
the shores of the Great Lakes, Colorado, and Oregon. Also 
native to northern Europe and Asia. ‘ 
Habitat: Prairies; moist meadows. 
