MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 



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Figure 250. — Lamarckia aurea. Plant, X Yi\ fertile spikelet and floret, X 5. (Baker 5275, Calif.) 



Tall perennial reeds with plumelike 

 panicles. Type species, Gynerium sac- 

 char vides (G. sagittatum) . Name from 

 Greek gune, female, and erion, wool, 

 referring to the woolly pistillate 

 spikelets. 



Gynerium sagittatum (Aubl.) 

 Beauv. Uva grass. Culms as much as 



10 or 12 m. tall, clothed below with 

 the overlapping old sheaths, the 

 blades fallen ; blades sharply serrulate, 

 commonly 2 m. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, 

 forming a great fan-shaped summit to 

 the sterile culms, panicle pale, plume- 

 like, densely flowered, 1 m. or more 

 long, the main axis erect, the branches 



