. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. 30 MEADOW FOXTAIL. Annual; flowers in August. Grows from six to ten feet high in shallow water. Ohio, Wisconsin, and the South. 3. Alopecurus. Foxtail Grasses. Spikelets one-flowered; glumes boa^ shaped, compressed and keeled, nearly equal, united at the base; lower palea awned on the
. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. 30 MEADOW FOXTAIL. Annual; flowers in August. Grows from six to ten feet high in shallow water. Ohio, Wisconsin, and the South. 3. Alopecurus. Foxtail Grasses. Spikelets one-flowered; glumes boa^ shaped, compressed and keeled, nearly equal, united at the base; lower palea awned on the back below the mid- dle, upper palea wanting; stamens three; styles mostly united ; stigmas long and feathered; leaves smooth and flat. Panicle contracted into a cylin- drical, soft spike, like the tail of a fox, from which it derives its generic name. Introduced and naturalized from Great Britain. Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus jt/ra- tensis)y Fig. 19, has an erect, smooth stem, two or three feet high, with swelling sheaths; spikes cylindrical, obtuse, equalling the sharp cone-like glumes; awn twisted, and twice the length of the blossom. Fig. 20. The spike not so long as that of Timothy. Flowers in May, in fields and pastures. Perennial — introduced. The meadow foxtail close- ly resembles Timothy, but may be distinguished from it as having one palea only. The spike or head of mead- ow foxtail is soft, while that of Timothy is rough. It flowers earlier than Tim- othy, and thrives on all soils except the dryest sands and Fig. 19. Meadow FoxtaU. Fig. '^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flint, Charles L. (Charles Louis), 1824-1889. Boston : J. E. Tilton
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