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Figure 1124.— Distribution of 

 Phalaris caroliniana. 



Figure 1123.— Phalaris caroliniana. Plant, 



often exposed, the sterile lemmas about half as long. % — Ravines 

 and open moist ground in the Coast Range, southwestern Oregon to 



San Luis Obispo County, Calif . 



9. Phalaris arundinacea L. Reed 

 canary grass. (Fig. 1128.) Peren- 

 nial, with creeping rhizomes, glaucous; 

 culms erect, 60 to 150 cm tall; panicle 

 7 to 16 cm long, narrow, the branches 

 spreading during 

 an thesis, the low- 

 er as much as 5 

 cm long; glumes 

 about 5 mm long, 

 narrow, acute, the 

 keel scabrous, 

 very narrowly 

 winged; fertile 



lemma lanceolate, 4 mm long, with a 

 few appressed hairs; sterile lemmas 

 villous, 1 mm long. % — Marshes, 

 river banks, and moist places, New 

 Brunswick to southeastern Alaska (also 

 i X 074, ST and floret ' X5 ' (HitchC0Ck at Tanana Hot Springs, Alaska), south 



to North Carolina, Kentucky, Okla- 

 homa, New Mexico, Arizona, and northeastern California (fig. 1129); 

 Eurasia. An important constituent of lowland hay from Montana 



to Wisconsin. Phalaris arundi- 

 nacea var. picta L. Ribbon grass. 

 Blades striped with white. © — 

 Grown for ornament in gardens; 

 also called gardener's garters. 



Phalaris tuberosa var. sten- 

 optera (Hack.) Hitchc. (Fig. 1 130.) 

 Perennial, with a 

 loose branching, 

 rhizomatous base; 

 culms stout, as much 

 as 1 .5 m tall ; panicle 

 5 to 15 cm long, 1.5 

 cm wide, slightly 

 lobed ; glumes 5 to 6 

 mm long, the keel 

 scabrous, rather 

 narrowly winged on 

 the upper two-thirds; FlGURE im.-pha- 

 fertile lemma 4 mm MUmmonuxs. 



t , t (Type.) 



long, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acute, appressed-pubescent ; 

 sterile lemma usually solitary, 

 about one-third as long as fertile 

 lemma. % — About 1902 there 

 appeared in Queensland, Austra- 

 lia, the source unknown, a species 

 promise of being a valualeb forage 



Figure 1125.— Phalaris angusta. Plant, X 1; 

 glumes and floret, X 5. (Suksdorf 32, Calif.) 



of Phalaris which gave 



