The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges

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Large crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis) Identifier: bookofgrassesill00franuoft (find matches)
Title: The book of grasses : an illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Francis, Mary Evans, 1876-1941
Subjects: Cyperaceae Grasses -- United States Juncaceae
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in pairs or 3s; 1spikelet of each group sessile andperfect; sterile spikelets reducedto hairy pedicels; perfect spikelets3-4 long, hairy, shining chestnutbrown; scales 4; flowering scalebearing a twisted awn 5-io long.Stamens 3, anthers yellow. Dry soil, fields, waysides, and bordersof woods. August to October. Ontario to Manitoba, south to Florida,Texas, and Arizona. LARGE CRAB-GRASS, SMALL CRAB-GRASS, AND PURPLE FINGER-GRASS The two Crab-grasses, largeand small, are among the manyweeds that have obtained a foot-hold in America by smuggling theirseeds through the port of entrywith those of more importantplants. Many of the most com-mon weeds — how many canhardly be known — are those thathave emigrated with the whiteman and have tirelessly followedhis footsteps through the NewWorld. Such unwelcome foreign-ers usually take the highways ofcivilization for their own, andremaining near waysides and incultivated lands keep the agricul-turist forever busy plucking upthe naughty weeds.56
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LAROE CRAH-GRASS (Pinilnri.i snnKuiiidlis) Three quarters natural size Illustrated Descriptions of the Grasses ■f Large Crab-grass v !v I / is a weed only when itis out of place, as it sofrequently is inthis country. Insome localities thestems yield a valuedpasturage, and in southwestern Europe this grass iscultivated for its seeds, whichare used in porridge. Small Crab-grass (Digitdria humifusa)and Large Crab-grass bloom in midsummerand later and are very similar in appearance,differing chiefly in size and in the number ofspikes. Small Crab-grass is usually lesscommon, and the second scale of eachspikelet is much longer than is the secondscale of the larger species. In many adooryard and near many a garden LargeCrab-grass is the most noticeable growth ofAugust and September, when the darkgreen stems spread over the ground and lifttheir narrow, deeply coloured spikes which,from the summits of the stems, spreadwidely, like the rays of an umbel, or like theopen fingers of a hand. Ne

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