400 WEEDS ^\XD USEFUL PLa^J^TS. 



length become coriaceous, closely investing the free smooth grain. Leaves 

 broad and flat. 



1. P. arnildina'cea, L- Panicle oblong, with the spikelets more or les3 

 clustered and somewhat secund on the branches ; glumes keeled, wing- 

 less ; neutral, rudiments hairy. 

 Reed-like Phalaeis. Eeed Canary Grass. 



Fig. 271. Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacca). 272. Aspikelet, 273. Aspikelet witfc 

 Ihc glumes removed • the central fertile flower with two miuate abortive ones at its D3S.9 



