Title: American grasses
Identifier: americangrasses03scri (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Scribner, Frank Lamson, 1851-1938
Subjects: Grasses
Publisher: Washington : Gov. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 8. Erianthus compactus Nash. DENSELY-FLOWERED PLUME- GRASS.—a, A spikelet; 6, first glume; c, second glume; d, third glume; e, fourth or flowering glume; /, lodicules. Fig. 4 in Bui. 7 and fig. 304 in Bui. 17 illustrate other species of this genus. 8. EEIANTHTJS, Michx. Flor. Bor. Am. 1: 54. 1803. Spikelets in pairs, one sessile, the other pedicellate, along the articulate and readily disjoint- ing panicle-branches, both alike, hermaphrodite. Glumes 4, the outer ones subequal, firm-membranaceous, the 1st flattened on the back and more or less bicarinate and 2-toothed at the narrowed apex; the 2d somewhat rounded on the back, sharply acuminate-pointed and more or less keeled above; the 3d empty and usually hyaline, awnless; the 4th awned and inclosing a hermaphro- dite flower. Palea usually much shorter than its glume, nerveless; lodicules cuneate, ciliate, or naked. Tall, reed-like perennials, with the spikelets in many-jointed racemes, which are sessile along the main axis, forming an ample terminal and usually woolly panicle. Species about 18, in the warmer regions of both hemispheres.

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