. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . 3CKSPUR GRASS (Echinochloa crusgalli). One third natural size. Awn-bearing plants of this very variable species resemble£. Walleri; the latter may be recognized by its rough sheaths. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses Witch-grass {Pdnicum capiUare), is a beautiful weed of dry soiland is easily recognized, since, even to the most superficialobserver, it is unlike any other grass of late summer. The large,yet delicate, flowering-heads, composed of innumerable fmebranches, are s
. The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges . 3CKSPUR GRASS (Echinochloa crusgalli). One third natural size. Awn-bearing plants of this very variable species resemble£. Walleri; the latter may be recognized by its rough sheaths. Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses Witch-grass {Pdnicum capiUare), is a beautiful weed of dry soiland is easily recognized, since, even to the most superficialobserver, it is unlike any other grass of late summer. The large,yet delicate, flowering-heads, composed of innumerable fmebranches, are soft and silky when they first break from theenclosing sheaths; later, when the flowers bloom and the seedsripen, the panicles are widely open and stiff, and, soon brokenby the wind, are blown as tumble-weeds across the fields toscatter their seeds and give them to the care of another \ear. Small members of the genus are common by roadsides and infields, where in short flowering-heads of green and purple spikeletsPanic-grasses bloom from spring until autumn. Among thosemost commonly found are the Forked Panic-grass {Pdnicum dicho-tomum) bearing short, spreading leaves on slender, wiry stemswhich support scantily flowered panicles; Starved Panic-grass{Pdnicum depauperdtum) recognized by its
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