The Grasses of Maine Designed for the Use of the Students of the Maine State Co
The Grasses of Maine Designed for the Use of the Students of the Maine State Co
Charles Henry Fernald
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Common Names. Wild Oat-Grass, Purple Wild-Oats. Perennial. Stems erect, simple, smooth, from one to three feet high ; leaves long and smooth, the sheaths close and conspicuously striate. S pikelets from three to six-flowered, much exceeding the length of the acute, purplish glumes : lower glume one, the upper three-nerved ; flowers short-bearded at the base. Grows on rocky and shady hills. Flowers in July. Its productiveness and agricultural value have not been tested. Vermont specimens analyze...d at the Department of Agriculture, gave ash 4. 90, fat 4. 00, nitrogen-free extract 56. 13, crude fiber 26. 16, albuminoids 8. 75. Genus TBISETUM. Persoom. Tri-se-tum. From the Latin, tris, three, and seta, a bristle, in allusion to the three bristles of the flower. Spikelets two or three, rarely five-flowered, in a dense or open panicle, the rhachis usually hairy and produced into a bristle at the base of the upper flower ; glumes unequal, acute, keeled, membran- aceous, with scarious outer margins.
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