British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland / by Margaret Plues.

  • Plues, Margaret.
Date:
1867
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Credit: British grasses : an introduction to the study of the Gramineae of Great Britain and Ireland / by Margaret Plues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    England, and in some of the midland ones. It flowers in June and July, and is readily distinguished from others of the family by the great length of the awns, and also by the inequality of the outer glumes. These grasses arc generally known in Eng- lish as Bent-grasses, but Mr. Bentham prefers retaining the botanical name, and as we follow his arrangement we accept his nomenclature. Sir J. E. Smith tells us that this grass is liable to fungus disease, called smut; it is a favourite herbage with horses and goats, but not liked by sheep. There is a variety, called interrupt a, common in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, with an attenuated and contracted panicle,'the branches being erect, and the anthers shorter; but the permanence of the distinctions is dubious. Genus XIV. GASTRIDIUM. Gen. Char. Outer glumes unequal, acute, base swollen, smooth, and shining. Gastridium lendigerum, Bcauv. Awned Nitgrass. (Milium, Eug. Bot.) Boot annual, tufted, fibrous; stems numerous, erect, round, smooth, glossy; joints three, enveloped by the