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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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awnbetween the lobes; palets hairy on upper part of keels. Stamens 3. Sandy soil, especially along the coast. July to September. Maine to Florida, westward to Nebraska and Texas. PURPLE ERAGROSTIS, LACE-GRASS, TUFTED ERA- GROSTIS, PURSHS ERAGROSTIS, STRONG-SCENTED ERAGROSTIS, AND CREEPING ERAGROSTIS When the warm colour of Bent-grasses has faded, these grassesof late summer intensify, with deep violet and purple, the gold ofharvest. One of the most common species. Purple Eragrostis, called bychildren Tickle-grass, grows in low tufts on dry and sandy soil,where the gauzy flowering-heads, a foot long or more, spreadabove the dark green, hairy leaves. As the sunlight of earlymorning falls Across the meadows laced with threaded dew the flowering-heads of this grass glisten with an intense colourwhich is reflected in each cryst-al dewdrop that gems the spikelets.In dry fields, where the September sun has burned to a goldenbrown the shorter growth of grasses, ripening panicles of Purple 172
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