■iOO WEEDS AXD U6KFUL PLAXTS. 



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

 broad and flat. 



1. P. arimdina'cea, L. PaDicle oblong, with the spikelets more or less 

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

 less ; neutral, rudiments hairy. 

 Eeed-like Phalaeis. Eeed Canary Grass. 



Fig. 271. Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundLnacea). 272. Aspikelet. 273. Aspikelet with 

 the glumes removed : the central fertile flower with two minute abortire ones at its base 



