My portion of this floating residence was lined with a kind of reed-work formed of long culms of Saccharum.
The former was flowering abundantly, the whole of the culms (which were 20 feet high) being a diffuse panicle of inflorescence.
The Pao attains a height of 40 to 60 feet, and the culms average in thickness the human thigh; it is used for large water-vessels, and its leaves form admirable thatch, in universal use for European houses at Dorjiling.
Only the August sun could have thus burnished these culms and leaves.
The purple of their culms also excites me like that of the poke-weed stems.
The culms of both, not to mention their pretty flowers, reflect a purple tinge, and help to declare the ripeness of the year.
Culms slender or filiform; tubercle narrower, acute, beak-like, sometimes half as long as the achene.
Culms often creeping at base; leaves ciliate at base; spikes 4--5; lower glume awned and the flowering one pointed.
Strephium floribundum: culms with leaves during the day, and when asleep at night.
Those on the uprightculms simply rise up vertically at night, so that their tips are directed towards the zenith.
It yielded the largest culms of the whole collection and bore long and heavy kernels with a red streak on the concave side and it excelled all other sorts by the fine qualities of its very white meal.
The straw is taller and stronger, and each plant produces more culms and more heads.
A tray is made of the fronds of the bracken fern (Pteris aquilina) covered with a cloth, on which the bones are placed together with culms of Cynodon grass and ghi.
The chief mourner, accompanied by two Badagas carrying new pots, proceeds to a stream, where the pots are cleaned with cow-dung, and rubbed over with culms of Andropogon Schoenanthus.
Grass-culms grow with great rapidity, as is most strikingly seen in bamboos, where a height of over 100 ft.
During its dormancy the sound had ceased and, in the mountains at least, was replaced by different notes and combinations of notes as the wind blew through its culms and scraped the tough stems against each other.
They act best when each branch seizes a few thin stems, like the culms of a grass, which they afterwards draw together into a solid bundle by the spiral contraction of all the branches.
On its farther shore I can see cultivated fields, where wave the tall graceful culms of the sugar-cane, easily distinguished from the tobacco-plant, of darker hue.
The tall culms vibrated and crackled under the heavy tread of a man, who the next moment emerging into the open ground, advanced at a slinging trot towards the water!
Their tops swayed to and fro, and their hollow culms rattled against each other, as they were jerked about, and borne downward.
But the culms of the rushes were so tall, and grew so closely together, that the canoemen, after entering, found to their chagrin they could not see six feet around them.
The stalks or culms of this sedge were full eight feet high, with smooth leaves, an inch broad, nearly a yard in length, and of a light green colour.
But the culms of the rushes were so tall, and grew so closely together, that the canoe-men, after entering, found to their chagrin they could not see six feet around them.
The purple of their culms also excites me like that of the Poke-Weed stems.
The second is also quite slender, growing in tufts two feet high by one wide, with culms often somewhat curving, which, as the spikes go out of bloom, have a whitish fuzzy look.
The moon, shining upon the meadow grass, shows a list differently shaded; where the tall culms have been bent down and crushed by the hoof of some heavy quadruped, that has made its way amidst them.
The game we could not see, on account of the interposed culms of the weeds.
We were compelled to halt; even the smoke rendered further progress impossible; but we could hear the fire at no great distance--the culms of the coarse reed-grass cracking like volleys of musketry.
The ripenedculms of the gramineae, and the stalks of the prairie flowers, have alike crumbled into dust under the devastating breath of fire.
The route is indicated by the wheel-marks of some vehicles that have passed before--barely conspicuous, by having crushed the culms of the shot grass.
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