Excerpt from The North American Species of Spartina A stout erect perennial 6 to 18 dm. High with unbran'ched glabrous culms from stout, scaly rootstocks, long tough leaf-blades and 5 to 20 spikes, forming a terminal panicle. Sheaths crowded below; ligule a ring of hairs; leaf-blades 3 to 12 or 18 dm. Long, 4 to 14 mm. Wide, scabrous on the margins, becoming involute in drying, attenuate into a long Slender tip. Spikes 5 to 10 cm. Long, often on peduncles, 1 to 2 cm. In length, ascending, racemose along the main axis, which is scabrous on the margins, as are also the secondary axes. Spikelets densely imbricate, 12 to 14 mm. Long; empty glumes unequal, strongly aculeolate-scabrous on the rigid keels, the first usually acute, the second long acuminate and more or less awned; flowering glume 7 to 9 mm. Long, glabrous, except for the aculeo late-scabrous midnerve which terminates just below the emarginate or 2-toothed apex. Palea thinner in texture and usually somewhat exceeding the glume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.