The Graminae or Grasses

 

A glume that’s mucronate, an awn,

A lodicule, a blade;

A lemma short, a ligule torn,

A sheath with edges frayed.

 

Racemes and clasping auricles,

Rhizomatous and keeled;

Nodes and nodding panicles,

Minutiae of a field.

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