Calamagrostis.'] clxxiil gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 261 



§§ Glume III awned in the upper third or tip, 



3. C. emodensis, Griseb. in Goett, Nachr. (1868) 80; stem stout 

 creeping below, leaves long broad flat glaucous scaberulous, panicle dense 

 or effuse much-branched, spikelets \ in. crowded, gl. I and 11 unequal 

 subulate-lanceolate, 111=^1 cleft to about the upper \ awned in th« 

 Cleft awn exserted, palea = f-f its gl. C. nepalensis, Herb. Struck & 

 ^yinkrb. impart). Calamagrostis, Wall. Gat. n. 3781 B. 



^Temperate Himalaya, alt. 7-12,000 ft, from Kashmir to Bhotsm, I'alconer, 



^/^^^ 3-5 ft., as thick as a goose-quill below. Leaves 12-18 by ^-§ in., thinly 

 litnl^^^k?^' P**'^ glaucous greerty many-nerved ; sheath nearly smooth or scaberulous; 

 aid ik °^' "membranous. Panicle B-10 in., inclined or nodding, very soft, shining 

 or • ^'P*®S''®y> brandies branchlets and very short pedicels capillary, smooth, 

 j^^^^°^^^y scaberulous. Glumes I aud II very thin, smooth, keels scaberulous, I 

 two^r /"^ 3-nerved ; III glabrous, hyaliue, usually cleft from the upper third into 

 aneeolate subulate-acuminate lobes: but the lobes are sometimes irregularly 

 '»^erateat the tip; nerves 5, faint. 



intr \ 1 ^***°''®*» ^G. Fl. Franc, v. 255 ; stem stout or slender creep- 

 Dan ^ a' ^^^^^^ narrow scaberulous often convolute, ligule oblong, 

 Lp 1 * '^^^ °^ effuse, spikelets ^-i in., gl. T and II unequal subulale- 

 term- I • ^^^^erulous, III = i.§ I tip truncate erose or toothed, awn 

 HP!.,./''* V^ * notch or short cleft or dorsal below the tip included, palea 



itichh v?^n-^'^'- <^"««^- V. 624; Steud. Si/n. Oram. 187. 0. glauca, 

 XTin noof ^^^^- Excurs. 27. C. lanceolata, Aitchis. in Joum. Linn. Sop. 

 'u. U«80) 107 {non Hath.). C. laxa, Host Gram. Amir. iv. 25, t. 43 ; Ledeb. 

 Nachno^jJ^^' -2^''^- -f«^- Or. Hf. & T. {in part) : Griseb. in Goett. 

 OraZ'^r,.r^ 80. C. nepalensis, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 193; Duthie 

 Ituh ,-^'^^' 30; Aitchi.1. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser.IL 5o<. iii. 124. 

 Slid •■ fi^°^^' ^- -S'^^- Fl. Taur. Cauc. i. 79. A. laxa, Roem. & Sch. 

 Rro8ti« li ,; ^- littorea, Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 212, t. 4, f. 2.-CaIama- 

 S^ostis, Wall. Cat. n. 3781 A. 



TibI?''?^*^^ Himalaya, alt. 6-10,000 ft. from Kashmir to Siiikim. Westebn 



8<em 9 \"~,12,000 ft.— DiSTKiB. Europe, N. and W. Asia, 

 times Zrt 1 ' ^^^^^' "^ t'''<^^^ «8 a crow-quill or small goose-quill, but some- 

 ^nvolnlA Vf^^^^- Leaves 12-18 by J^-i in , firm, smooth or scaberulous, flat or 

 •^miKwiti ^*^^^^^^ smooth ; ligule linear-oblong. Fanicle very variable in form and 

 SpikZu ' r^*^' °'" inclined, green or purple, rachis and branclus scaberulous. 

 gL I ana TT ? .^ ^"' ^°ng. sometimes only i in., when the outer glumes are broader ; 



•0 much H !^''°"^<>'- than its gl.— A very difficult plant to define satisfactorily 

 *e incising c spikelets vary in size, in the breadth of the empty gis., and m 

 '•'thanl?^ • ^\^ top of gl. m, which is either rounded and obtusely 2.toothed 

 ''"^n with 1 'v ^ ^''^'^^« or truncate with a terminal awn, or 2.1obed nearly ^ way 

 "Bay be " . *l, ,'"eg"la'-ly incised and the awn in tlie sinus, or finally the awn 

 "'"^le of tK° / ^"'■''*' »^elow the truncate tip. Pr. Stapf, who has revised the 

 *°»e vi.r^p • '*" material which I had referred to this species, confirms the 

 ^- ^ioua ''^ variation, and agrees with me in referring it to the European 



'■ '"'■*<"•»■ ca ; stem shorUr stouter, leav.s convolute, panicle strict narrowly 



