382 Dr. Hooker’s Account of a 
P. laxa. Henke Fl. Sudet. p. 118. Host Gram. Austr. 
v. lii. p. 10. £. 15. 
P. flexuosa. Sm. in Engl. Dot. t. 1123. 
B. panicula latiuscula compacta, rigidiore. 
The var. « so perfectly agrees with the figure in Host's 
Gramina Austriaca, that I have no hesitation in considering it 
to be really that plant. Of the £ I am more doubtful. Its 
panicle is much broader; the spikelets more numerous and 
more compact; their pedicels shorter and less slender; and 
the whole is of a more purple colour. The general form and 
structure of the spikelets are the same. 
The more common state of this species is found in the alps 
of Switzerland, Germany and Scotland; also in the sub- 
alpine districts of Lapland. 
33. FESTUCA. 
54. F. ovina. 
Var. corollis valde pilosis. 
Only one, and that a very injured, specimen of this grass is 
in the collection. The calyx is glabrous or only slightly cili- 
ated at the margin; the florets remarkably hairy, more so than 
is represented in the Fest. hirsuta of Host, or the F. rubra of 
Engl. Botany. The leaves are wanting. | 
Festuca ovina is common throughout Europe, and at various 
elevations. Pursh has it not in his Flora of North America, 
nor Elliott in his recent account of the plants of the ‘ middle 
and northern sections" of the United States: but Dr. Rich- 
ardson found it plentifully, and it has been gathered by the 
Arctic voyagers. 
34. Des- 
