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THF GRASSES 



The root is annual, perennial, creeping, stoloniferous, 

 fibrous. Culms solitary, in tufts, .recumbent, ascending, 

 smooth or rough, the nodes are sometimes bearded, in Herds 

 grass (Agrostis vulgaris) from the lowest nodes, bulb-like 

 intumescences. A creeping root is in fact a subteraneous 

 stem. See fig. 



