260 CLXXTii. GRAMiNEiG. (J. D. Hooker.) 



74. CAZiAMAGaOSTZS, Adans. 



Stout or slender grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets in narrow or 

 effuse panicles, 1-fld., not jointed on the pedicels; rachilla jointed at tne 

 h&se, not produced beyond gl. III. Glitmes 3, I and II equal or unequal, 

 lanceolate, acumi ate, glabrous or scabernlous; III shorter, hyaline, trun- 

 cate, crenate or cleft, glabrous or hairy, awned, paleate ; palea often m^°I^"' 

 rarely 0; callus bearded with long or short hairs.— Species about loi 

 natives of cold and temp, climates. 



See remarks under Agrostis (p. 253). See also Dei/euxia ahnormis, which is 

 intermediate between that genus and Calamagrostis . 



Glume III glabrous. 

 t Hairs of callus longer than gl. III. 

 § Glume III dorsally awned at the middle or below it, 



1. C. epigrejos, Roth. Tent. Fl. Qerm. i. 34 ; stem stout cre^epmg 

 below, leaves glaucous scaberuloua, ligale long acute, panicle ' 



branches scaberulons, spikelets -J-i in., gl. I and II subequal Rubnia 

 lanceolate. III = i II tip 2-fid, awn dorsal at or near the middle, p-* 



\-% gl. Ill, hairs of callus as long as gl?. I and II. Krmtli Enurn.^^ 



1. 'J.6{, Nuppl. 184; Most bhram. Austr. iv. Z+, t. 4-Z. ueiciiu. -lo. - •• - , jp 



t. 43 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 432 ; Boisn. FL Orient, v. 525 ; Duthie Grass. ^■^ 



387, 



Ind, 30. C. georgica & thyrsoides, G. Koch in Limi^a, xxi. (.^?.**^/,Qgo) 



^ ' Boiss, et Buhse in Mem. Soc.Nat. Mosc xii. [^^ . 



& vilneensis. Schult. Mant. iii. 602. C 



Stokes in W 

 Beichh, FL C 



'■> 



388, C. glomerata, 



r. Brit. PL Ed. III. ii. 122. C. glauca & H;^^*^°Sm! 



Excurs. 27, Ic. FL Germ. t. 43. C. rigens, Fries ^» 

 Veg. Scand. 240. Arundo epigejog, Linn. Sp. PL 81 ; -Ewf/^- Sot t. 

 FL Dan t. 2165; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 97. 



S. 



Kashmir, alt. 8-14,000 ft., FahoneTy &c.— Bistrtb. N. Asia. Europe. 

 Africa. . j,tP, 



iS/ein 2-4 ft., erect, usually stout. Leaves long, narrow, finely ^*^^^ g^i2 

 scaberulons, more or Icps glaucous ; ligule oblong, rather long, acute. ^^^^l^HeUi* 

 in. or more, oblong or lanceolate, much branched, branches usually erect. r ^^ jj 

 shortly pedicelled, erect, green or light or dark purple; gl. I and II ^""^^**''g . Ill 

 the longest, l-nerved or II 3-uerved, keel and often margins scaberulo » 

 glabrous, smooth or scaberulous, awu equalling its gl. 



2. C. decora, Ilooh. / . 



long flat, panicle loosely branched, spikelets \ in., gls. 1 ^"i^ te* bw» 

 equal lanceolate, scaberulous, III = |-f I truncate 4-cuspiaaie^ ^^^^^^ 

 subbasal exserted, palea as long as the gl., callus hairs rather long 

 gl. III. 



F 



Kashmir ; Astor Valley, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Buthie (n. 12.660). ^ ^^jefttb 



S^cm 4r-5 ft. or more. Leaves 12-18 by i in., scaberuloua, pale ^^j.' lender 

 smooth; ligule large, oblong, rounded. PamcJe 3-8 in., pale green, ^"f ^.^jy pedi- 

 and fascicled branches scaberulous, branches naked below. Spikelets sno J^^^^^. 

 celled, su))eroct; gls. I and II hardly membranous, finely acuminate, keel ^^^^r< 

 lous, I ^.nerved ; III glabrous, except the callus; awn shortly exserted. 

 linear. 



very 



sub 



