76 TRIANDRIA-DIGYNIA. Phleum. 



30. PHLEUM. CatVtail-grass. 



Linn. Gen. 33. Juss. 29. Fl. Br. 08. Lam. t. 42. Gartn. t. J . 



Cal. of 2 nearly equal, compressed, clasping, parallel, point- 

 ed, or awned, more or less abrupt, valves, spreading at 

 the top, containing a single floret Cor. of 2 unequal, 

 mostly awnlesSj valves, concealed within the calyx, al- 

 ways remaining membranous; the larger valve clasping 

 the smaller. Filam. capillary. Anth. linear, prominent, 

 cloven at each end. Germ, roundish. Styles capillary, 

 spreading. Stigmas feathery. Seed elliptic-oblong, loose. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Stem leafy. Injl. a spiked 

 cluster, or dense panicle, assuming the form of a spike. 

 Fl. numerous, crowded. 



1. Vh.pratense. Common CatVtail-grass. Timothy- 

 grass. 

 Cluster spiked, cylindrical. Calyx abrupt, fringed at the 



keel, longer than its awns. 

 Ph.pratense. Linn. Sp. PI. 87. Willd. v.\. 354. Fl.Br.68. Engl. 



Bot. v. 15. t.\076. Mart. Rust. t.5. Honk. Scot.2'3. Knapp t. 6. 



Leers 17. t.3.f. 1. Schreb. Gram. v. 1. 102. t. 14. Schrad. 



Germ. v. 1. 182. Sin cl. S3. 

 Ph. n. 1528. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 245. 

 Gramen typhinum majus, seu primum. Rail Syn. 308. 

 G. typhoides maximum, spica longissirna. Bauh. Thcatr. 49. /. 



Prodr. 1 0.f. Scheuchz. Agr. GO. t. 2.f.5,A, B. Moris. v.3.\ 93. 



sect. 8. t.4. ord.3.f.\. 

 (3. Ph. pratense minus. Sincl. 85. 

 G. typhinum minus. Rail Syn. 398. 

 G. typhoides medium, sive vulgatissimum. Moris, v. 3. 1 93. sect.S. 



t.4. ord.3.f.2. 

 y. Phleum nodosum. Linn. Sp. PL 88. Willd. v. 1 . 355. Leers 1 7. 



t. 3.f. 2. Fl. Dan. t. 380. Sincl. 87. 

 Ph. n. 1530. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 245. 

 Alopecurus bulbosus. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 12. 4. 

 Gramen nodosum, spica par va. Bauh. Theatr. 20. f. Dill, in Rail 



Syn. 398. 

 G. typhoides asperum alterum. Bauh. Theatr. 52./. Scheuchz. 



Agr. 62. 

 G. typhoides minus. Moris, v. 3. 194. sect. 8. t.4. ord. 3.J.3. 

 G. typhinum minus. Ger. Em. 12./. 

 In moist meadows and pastures ; (5 in less fertile spots, and by 



way sides ; y in barren ground, occasionally flooded, or in very 



dry situations 3 all equally common. 

 Perennial. June — October. 

 Root somewhat creeping j in /3 slightly tuberous ; in y bulbous, 



often double. Stem from 2 to 4 feet high, knotty, erect ; in the 



