. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. GRASSES GRASSES 375 Europe, but recently introduced into this country and proving a valuable forage grass in the North- west, from Kansas to North Dakota and Washing- ton. Called also smooth, Hungarian, Austrian and awnless brome grass. secalinus, Linn. Chess. Cheat. (Fig. 558.) An annual, one to three feet high, with open panicle, smooth sheaths and'short-awned spikelets. A co
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. GRASSES GRASSES 375 Europe, but recently introduced into this country and proving a valuable forage grass in the North- west, from Kansas to North Dakota and Washing- ton. Called also smooth, Hungarian, Austrian and awnless brome grass. secalinus, Linn. Chess. Cheat. (Fig. 558.) An annual, one to three feet high, with open panicle, smooth sheaths and'short-awned spikelets. A corn-. Fig. 558. Chess or cheat (lirommt secalinus). 11 Common in wheat fields. It was once sup- ji posed that wheat turned to chess. mon weed introduced from Europe but cultivated for forage in Oregon and Washington. A closely allied species (B. racemosus commutatus) is common and can be distinguished by the pubescent sheaths and the less rigid and turgid lemma, especially in fruiting spikelets. The idea that chess may turn into wheat is now one of the curiosities of agricul- tural tradition. unioloides, H. B. K. Rescue-grass. (Fig. 559.) A tall annual (one to three feet) with an open panicle of broad, much-flattened, nearly or quite awnless spikelets. Native of South America. Cultivated in the southern states for winter forage. Also called arctic-grass, Schrader's brome-grass, Australian brome and Australian oats. 27. Lolium (the old Latin name). A genus of six species of grasses in northern Europe and Asia. Spikelets several-flowered, solitary and sessile on alternate sides of the rachis, placed with the edges against the axis, forming a two-rowed spike. multifloruvi, Lam. (L. Italkum, A. Br.). Italian Rye-grass. (Fig. 5G0.) A short-lived perennial or scarcely more than a biennial. Spikelets with awns about as long as the lemma. On the Pacific coast sometimes called Australian rye-grass. perennc, Linn. Perennial Rye-grass. (Fig. 561.) Similar to the preceding, but somewhat mor
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