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Definition of Agrostis canina
1. Noun. Common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves.
Generic synonyms: Bent, Bent Grass, Bent-grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrostis Canina
Literary usage of Agrostis canina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Agrostis canina L. Sp. PI. 62. ¡753. Culms i°-2° tall, erect, slender, simple,
smooth and glabrous. Sheaths shorter than the internodes; ligule i "-il" long ..."
2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Agrostis canina L. Sp. PI. 62 (1753). ... 391. Agrostis rubra alpina (Oakes) Scribn.
Agrostis canina var. ..."
3. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"Agrostis canina. Brown Bent Grass. PLATE XXVIII. Branches of the panicle elongated,
slender, erecto-patent, rough. Glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute, ..."
4. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1860)
"BROWN BENT or DOG'S BENT GRASS (Agrostis canina), another species of agrostis,
... The ALPINE BROWN BENT (Agrostis canina, var. al- pina), ..."
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