A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, (20467386558)

Title: A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4
Identifier: classbookofbotan1850wood (find matches)
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881
Subjects: Botany; Plants; Plants
Publisher: Claremont, N. H. , Manufacturing Co. , S. Ide, agent
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden



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Aristida. CLXI. GRAMINEjE. s a 595
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Tribe 1. STIPACEiE.—Infloresence panicled. Spikelets solitary, 1-flower- ed. Glumes membranaceous. Paleae mostly two, lower one coriaceous, involute, awned. 1. ARISTIDA. Lat. arista, an awn; characteristic of the genus. Panicle contracted or racemose; glumes 2, unequal; paleae pedi- cellate, lower one with 3 long awns at the tip, upper one very minute or obsolete. 1. A. dichotoma. Michx. Poverty Grass. Caespitose; st. dichotomously branching-; panicle contracted-racemose; lateral awns very short, the intermediate one nearly as long as the paleae, con- torted.—A slender grass, in sandy soils, U. S., common. Stems 8—12' high, branching at each joint. Leaves very narrow, with very short, open sheaths, and a very short stipule. Spikelets slender, on clavate peduncles. Aug. 2. A. purpurascens. Poir. St. erect, simple, filiform, 2—3f high; Ivs. very narrow, flat, erect, a foot in length, with short, open sheaths; panicle long, loosely spicate; spikelets on short, clavate, appressed pedicels; awns nearly equal, divaricate, twice the length of the paleae; palece often dark purple.—% Sandy woods, Northern States. Sept. 3. A. gracilis. Ell. St. very slender, a foot or more high; Its. setaceous, erect, with short sheaths, pilose at the throat; panicle very slender; spikelets somewhat remote, ap- pressed ; lateral awns short, erect, intermediate one longer, spreading. -% Mass. and S. States. A grass of little value, as well as the other species of this genus. 4. A. tuberculosa. Nutt. Long-awned Poverty Grass. St. erect (declinate at base), 8—-20' high, rigid, with small tubercles in the axils of the numerous branches; nodes tumid; Ivs. long and narrow-linear; panicle large, loose, simple ; spikelets pedicellate; glumes nearly 1' long, linear, awned; upper palece involute, the awns 2' long, hispid upwards, twisted together to near the middle, thence finally horizontally divaricate.—% A very singular species, in dry prairies, 111., Mead! July, Aug.