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Careful all-round cultivation is necessary to produce good plumes.
Careful all-round cultivation is necessary to produce good plumes.
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Cortaderia argentea, Stapf (Gynerium argenteum, Nees). PamPas-grass. Culms numerous, in large thick tussocks, 3-6 ft. high, excluding the panicle: lvs. mostly basal, the upper sheaths gradually elongated; blades firm, long and slender, very scabrous on the margins, ⅛-¼ in. wide, tapering to a slender point: panicle large, compact, 1-3 ft., silvery white or in cult, varieties tinged with purple, dioecious; spikelets 2-3-fld., the pistillate silky with long hairs, the staminate naked; glumes white and papery, long and slender; lemmas bearing a long slender awn. A.G. 14:323. G. 1:412. G.C. III. 40:295; 43:195. Gn. 62, p. 346; 66. p. 375. G.W. 3:415. Gn.W. 5:85; 23:20. J.H. III. 35:483; 49:27. R.H. 1862, p. 150. V. 3:369, 391. S. Brazil and Argentina. C. Lambleyi foliis variegatis, Hort., G.C. III. 25:335, appears to be a form of C. argentea.
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