604 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



very numerous, ovate-oblong, 5-6-flowered, nearly terete ; 

 loicer imlea oblong, obtuse, 7- nerved. (Poa parviflora, 

 Pursh.) Wet swamps. July. Culms 2°-3° high; spike- 

 lets 2" long. 



G. PALLIDA, Trin. Culms erect or ascending ; i^anide 

 narrow, nearly simple, Avith the capillary branches erect; 

 sjJi'kelets pale, oblong-linear, 5-0-flowered, nearly terete ; 

 lower palea oblong, minutely 5-toothed, 7-nerved. Shallow 

 water. July. Culms l°-3° long; spikelets V long. 



ARUXDINARIA, Michx. Ca:n'e or Reed. 



Tall icoody grasses, with clustered spreading tranches, 

 broad and flat persistent leaves, and racemose ov panicled 

 many-fioicered spikelets ; glumes unequal, concave, mem- 

 branaceous, awn-pointed ; palece rather loosely imbricated 

 on the bearded and jointed rachis, nearly equal, the lowest 

 one ovate-lanceolate, concave, many-nerved, «/t'«-pointed, 

 the upper strongly 2-keeled; stamens 3 ; stigmas 3; grain 

 oblong, free. 



A. GIGANTEA. {Cane) Culms arborescent, 10°-20° 

 high, rigid, simple the first year, branching the second, 

 afterward at indefinite periods fruiting, and soon after de- 

 caying ; leaves lanceolate (l'-2' wide), acuminate, smootli- 

 ish ; panicles lateral, composed of few simple racemes ; 

 sjjikelets purple, erect; lower palea lanceolate-ovate, pubes- 

 cent, fringed (8" long), aw-n-pointed. (Arundinaria ma- 

 crosperma, Michx.) Banks of the rivers. February. 



A. TECTA, Muhl. (Beed.) Culms slender, 2°-10° high, 

 branching ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, roughish, 

 the sheaths bearded at the throat ; spikelets solitary, or in a 

 simple raceme at the summit of the branches, or frequently 

 on leafless radical culms; loicer palea (6" long) ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, smooth, fringed on the margins, «zt';i -pointed. 

 (Arundo tecta, Walt.) Swamps. F^'^^ruary and M^'-'^h. 



