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Identifier: britishgrassesse00prat (find matches)
Title: The British grasses and sedges
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893
Subjects: Botany Grasses
Publisher: London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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t four florets; glumessmall, blunt, strongly ribbed; root fibrous and annual.This is a not unfrequent grass on the maritime shores ofEngland, though rare in Scotland and Ireland. Thestem, which is round and smooth, always bends more orless at the base, and is from half a foot to a foot long,bearing, in June and July, its compact cluster, about twoinches long, of small grass-green spikelets, turning allone way on their branches, which stand in two rows onthe stem. Mr. Knapp remarks of this grass, that atHartlepool, where seaweeds were burnt in order toobtain an alkaline salt for the alum works at Whitby,after showers of rain an alkaline lixivium floated inthe yard from the stacks of sea-weed, destroying allvegetation; yet that this grass, though not frequentin the neighbourhood, luxuriated there abundantly.(PI. 259, fig. 6.) 7. P. ri(/ida (Hard Meadow-grass).—Panicle co\w))?ici,erect, rigid, with bninches in two rows, the branchesbeing sometimes undivided so as to be a raceme; spike-
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.l,\Un Ml.ADDWARF WIIK.\ n.Af STV.*^^^^^) m r. I SWOOTII SI II M G p. iriviolis. i BRITISH GRASSES AND SEDGES. 89 lets small and narrow, of 7—10 florets; glumes unequaland acute; roots fibrous and annual. This little wiryhard grass, with its rigid cluster one or two inches long, iscommon in June, on dry heaths, old walls, and rocks nearthe sea. The branches of the panicle are short and rough,or sometimes almost wanting; the spikelets growingclose to the stem on very short stalks. The wiry erectstem is rarely more than five inches high, and the leavesvery narrow, flat, and tapering at the point. The roottakes very little hold of the soil. (PL 260, fig. 1.) 8. P. lolidcea (Dwarf Wheat Meadow-grass).—Panicle racemose, rigid, usually one-sided, very rarelybranched ; spikelets narrow and oblong, of about 8—12florets; glumes blunt, nearly equal; root annual. Thisgrass is much like P. rigida, equally stifi and wiry, andof about the same height. The spikelets are mostlyarranged down the

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