Grasses : $b A handbook for use in the field and laboratoryWard, H. Marshall (Harry Marshall)
Science
Grasses : $b A handbook for use in the field and laboratory
Ward, H. Marshall (Harry Marshall)
Grasses
(P and M) _Dactylis glomerata_ (fields, &c.).
(P and M) _Poa trivialis_ (meadow and pasture).
(W) _Bromus arvensis_ (cultivated and waste places, meadow and pasture).
(W) _B. sterilis_ (ruderal).
(P and M) _Poa pratensis_ (meadow and pasture).
(W) _Briza media_ (meadow and pasture).
(P) _Avena pratensis_ (meadow and pasture, especially hilly).
(P) _A. pubescens_ (var.)--dry.
(P and M) _Lolium perenne_ (meadow, pasture and waste places).
(P and M) _L. italicum_ (valuable culture grass).
(P) _Cynosurus cristatus_ (downs).
(M and P) _Festuca elatior_ (meadow and moist pasture, banks and
river-sides).
(W) _Agrostis alba and A. canina_ (pasture and waste places,
wet or dry).
(P and M) _Alopecurus pratensis_ (meadow and pasture).
(W) _A. geniculatus_ (moist meadows and marshes).
(P and M) _Phleum pratense_ (meadow and pasture).
(P) _Arrhenatherum avenaceum_ (meadow, hedges and copse).
(P and M) _Anthoxanthum odoratum_ (fields generally).
(W) _Hordeum pratense_ (moist meadow and pasture).
(W) _Holcus lanatus and H. mollis_ (meadow, pasture and waste).
(P and M) _Avena flavescens_ (dry meadow and pasture).
(W) _Avena fatua_ (corn-weed).
(P) _Festuca ovina_ (light limestone pastures and chalk downs).
SHADE-GRASSES.
Found in woods, copses, &c., under shade.
_Melica uniflora_ (woods, &c.).
_Bromus asper_ (hedges, thickets, and edges of woods).
_B. giganteus_ (hedges and woods).
_Aira cæspitosa_ (moist shade and damp hedges).
_Poa nemoralis_ (woods, shady places and damp mountain rocks).
_Milium effusum_ (moist woods, &c.).
_Agropyrum caninum_ (woods and shady places).
_Hordeum sylvaticum_ (woods and copse).
_Brachypodium sylvaticum_ (woods, hedges and thickets).
_Arrhenatherum avenaceum_ (meadows, hedges and copse).
_Festuca sylvatica_ (mountain woods).
AQUATIC AND SEMI-AQUATIC GRASSES.
Found in wet ditches, ponds, and on marshes, river-banks, &c.
_Glyceria fluitans_ (wet ditches and slow waters).
_G. aquatica_ (wet ditches and shallow waters).
_Alopecurus geniculatus_ (moist meadow and marsh lands).
_Digraphis arundinacea_ (river-banks, marshes).
_Arundo Phragmites_ (wet ditches, marshes and shallow waters).
_Molinia cærulea_ (wet heaths and moors, woods and waste places).
_Triodia decumbens_, _Agrostis alba_, _Catabrosa_ and _Calamagrostis_.
MOOR-AND HEATH-GRASSES.
Downs and dry hill-pastures.
_Nardus stricta_ (moors, heaths and hilly pastures).
_Aira flexuosa_ (heaths and hill pastures).
_Molinia cærulea_ (wet heathy moors, woods and waste places).
_Kœleria cristata_ (dry pasture).
_Triodia decumbens_ (dry heathy and hilly pastures).
_Festuca ovina_ (hilly pastures--especially dry and open--rarer
in moist situations).
_Agrostis vulgaris_ and _A. canina._
MARITIME OR SEASIDE GRASSES.
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