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|species=donax
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Arundo donax, Linn. Giant Reed. Figs. 396, 397. Tall and stout, as much as 20 ft., from large knotty root- stocks: blades numerous, cordate-clasping and hairy-tufted at base, 2-3 in. wide on main st.: panicle 1-2 ft.; spikelets 6 lines long. G. 2:419. Gn. 1, p. 391; 3, p.493; 8, p. 199; 17, p. 407; 27, p. 307. G.M. 50:253. G.W. 2:337: 3:416; 8:613.—Cult, for ornament because of the regularly placed Lvs. and the large plumes. A smaller less hardy variegated form with white-striped Lvs. is cult, under the name of var. variegata (var. versicolor; var. pícta). G. 18:137. Var. macrophylla has large glaucous Lvs.
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