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. 88. Cathestecum prostratum Presl.—a, A group of 3 spikelets; b, a single spikelet; c, the outer empty glume; d, inner empty glume; e and g, flowering glumes; /, a palea. 88. CATHESTECTJM Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 294, t. l&. 1830. Plants polyg- amo-dioecious. Spikelets in deciduous clusters of threes, almost sessile along the continuous rachis of a simple spike; lateral spikelets 1- to 2-, the central 2- to 4-flowered, flowers hermaphrodite. Two lower glumes empty, unequal, mucronate or short-awned, the second glume of the central spikelet briefly 2-lobed, ehort-awned between lobes; flowering glumes longer, deeply 4-cleft, awned between the hyaline divisions. Palea shorter than the glumes, briefly 2- to 3-dentate at apex. Stamens 3. Styles distinct; stigmas plumose (really aspergilliform). A caespitose grass extensively creeping by stolons, sending up from the rooting nodes leafy tufts of erect flowering branches. Species 1, in Mexico, extending into western Texas.

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