226 NATIVE FOKAGE PLANTS 



ARUNDINARIA MARCOSPERMA, Mioh.-s.-(Large Cane,) and 

 ARUNDINARIA TECTA, M.ichx..~(Small Cane). 

 Are very generally known, and have already been mentioned. 



UNIOLA LATIEOLIA Michx.~(Broad-leaved Spihe Crass). 



This is a very graceful grass, well-known to ladies for making winter 

 bouquets. Flowers in July on cliffs and river banks. Leaves nearly 

 one inch wide, spikelets large, f inches long and J broad, very flat, 

 looking like compressed, ovoid, drooping from long capillary pedicels. 

 Of little valj J or forage. 



UNIOLA GRACILIS Miehx— 



Another very different looking species, deserves no discription. 



TRITICTJM REFENS, L.-COracA Grass.) 



Spikelets, 4-8, flowered, glabrous or nearly so, glumes, 5-7-nerved, 

 rhachis glabrous, but rough on the edges. Occurs here and there in 

 fields and gardens. Very troublesome. 



TRITICUM CANXNUM, Linn- (Fibrous-rooted Wheat Grass). 



Spikelets four to five flowered ; glumes 3-5 nerved ; 

 rhachis rough and bristly on the edgesj awn twice the length 

 of palet, leaves flat and roughish. 



It resembles very much the "Couch" grass, only it has 

 no creeping roots like the latter. It is perennial, and is 

 usually found in cultivated fields. It grows from two to 

 three feet high, and flowers in August. It is greedily eaten 

 by stock, but its habit of spreading in grain fields renders 

 it rather a pest than useful. Its occurrence here is doubt- 

 ful. 



