FESTVCA. TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 121 



I. p. 420. Mukl.Gram. Tp, 1Q3. R o em. <^ S chit 1 1. U. 



p. 724. 

 Hooi perennial. Culm a foot and a half high, erect, pubescent? 

 geniculate, red on the lower part. Leaves very lons^;, linear 

 and setaceous, nerved, smooth and glaucous. Scifiule very 

 short. Panicle contracted, erect, or somewhat nodding ; the 

 lower branches in pairs; the upper ones solitary. Spikdet* 

 lanceolate, terete, pedicellate, 4 — 6-flowered. Calyx unequal ; 

 glumes lanceolate, smooth ; one of them 3-nerved. Valves of 

 the coroUq lanceolate ; the inferior one terminated by a long, 

 scabrous, straight bristle. Stamens 3. Mu h L 

 Hab.- Jn dry soils. .Pennsylvania. June, Muhlenberg^ 

 Glumes red after flowering. 



Of this species I have never seen a North-American speci- 

 men. The description of Muhlenberg applies better to 

 F. glauca than to F. rubral of which, according to H o o k e r^ 

 it is only a variety. F. obtusa Sfireng. Munt. I. p. 34, 

 (ScHENODORUs obtusus R 6 m. (ff. S c hu It. II. p. 710.) 

 appears to be the plant oi Muhlenberg described above. 



6. F.elatior L.: panicle spreading, much branched, loose; 

 spikelets ovate-lanceolate, 4— 5-flowered-, florets slightly arm- 

 ed ; leaves flat; root creeping. SchradL Fl. Germ. I. 

 p. 333. Willd. Upec. I. p. 425 .-^ Smith Fl. Brit. ]. 

 p.l24. Eng.Bot.t.]5d3. B ig. Host. p. 25. PurshFL 

 I.p.83. jl/w A/. Gram. p. 164. bcHENODORUS e/arior ^o em. 

 ir Schull. II. p. 699. 



Root perennial. Culm 3 — 4 feet high, terete, smooth. Leaves 

 a foot or more long, deeply striate, carinate. Sheaths loose. 

 Sti/iule almost wanting. Panicle 6 — 8 inches long, nodding 

 when old ; branches in pairs, scabrous. Calyx unequal; in- 

 ferior glume linear-lanceolate, carinate ; superior glume lan- 

 ceolate^ very scarious on the margin, obscurely 3-nerved. In- 

 ferior valve of the corolla very acute or mucronate, obscurely 

 5-nerved ; superior valve acute, scabrous on the margin Sta- 

 mens 3 ; anthers large, yellow. Styles very short ; stigmas 

 simply plumose, white. Mcturies ovate, white. Seed obovate. 

 IJab. In wet meadows ; common, June. 



6. F. pratensis Huds.: panicle spreading, branched; 

 spikelets linear, many-flowered, acute ; leaves linear ; root 

 fibrous. Schrad. Fl. Germ. I. p. 332. Sm i I h Fl. Brit. 

 I. p. 123. Eng. Bot. t. 1592. Scbenodokvs pratensis P. de 

 Beauv. Roem. ^ Schult. 11. p.'G98. 



Root perennial. Culm 1 — 2 feet high, erect, terete, smooth. 

 Leaves and sheaths very smooth. Sti/iule obsolete. Panicle 

 2 — 6 inches long, subsecund ; branches short, nearly simple ; 

 sfiikelets 7 — 8-flowered, terete. Calyx very unequal ; the su- 

 perior glume much larger, scarious on the margin, obscurely 

 nerved. Inferior valve of the corolla more or less acute, (never 

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