A Text-Book of Grasses With Especial Reference to the Economic Species of the United States
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beyond the spikelets, and in the more hairy second glumes with prominent black papillae. The range is about the same as that of the pre- ceding but does not extend so far north. Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. Tall or Side-oat grama. Culms 2 to 3 feet high, the spikes numerous, 30 to 50, arranged, by twisting of the peduncles, along one side of the upper part of the culm for 6 to 10 inches, about 3^ inch long, the spikelets appressed, 5 to 8 in each spike. Prairies and plains, from Ontari...o to Montana and south through Mexico to South America. 218 A TEXT-BOOK OF GRASSES There are many other species in the southwestern states and in Mexico, but the 3 described above are the best-known economic species. 245. Bulbilis Raf. — Buffalo-grass, The single species, B. dadyloides (Nutt.) Raf. (Buchloe dadyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.) (Figs. 48 and 49), a common and often the dominant grass on the Great Plains, is a low stoloniferous perennial that forms a firm sod. The staminate inflores- cence consists of 2 or 3 short 1-sided spikes on a culm a few inches high; the pistillate spikes are hidden among the leaves near the ground.
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