The Identification of Grasses by Their Vegetative Characters (Classic Reprint)

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In this discussion the term grass is restricted entirely to those plants which botanists group in the family Gramineae or Poaceae and does not include the clovers and some other forage plants which are often classed agriculturally under the term a grass. The true grasses are recognizable by the following characters: Stems jointed, usually hollow; leaves in two ranks on opposite sides of the stem, each consisting of two parts, the blade, usually narrow and elon gated, and the sheath, or basal portion, tubular and enwrapping the stem, its margins free or rarely grown together; leaf nerves parallel; at the junction of the sheath and blade a small membranous appendage, the ligule, which is sometimes wanting.

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