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2. A. alpinus. Alpine Fox-tail-grass. 



Stem erect, smooth. Spike ovate, somewhat panicled. 

 Calyx-glumes woolly, obliquely abrupt, nearly as long as 

 the awn of the corolla. 



A. alpinus. Engl. Bot. v. 16. L\ 126. Fl. Br. 1386. Comp. 12. 



Hook. Scot. 22. Don H. Brit. 4. 

 A. ovatus. Knapp *. 15 ? wanting awns. 



On the loftiest mountains of Scotland. 



On the mountains about Loch ne gare, Aberdeenshire, Mr. R. 

 Brown ; who informs me that he communicated it to Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. July. 



Root somewhat creeping, with many long fibres. Stem about a 

 foot high, bent at the lowest joint, then erect, leafy, smooth. 

 Radical leaves linear, narrow; those on the stem two, broader, 

 and much shorter, smooth, with very long, smooth, slightly in- 

 flated, pale reddish sheaths, each crowned by a very short abrupt 

 stipula. The dense, spiked panicle is formed of numerous, 

 crowded, compound tufts, or lobes, as in the foregoing species, 

 but is ovate, and not an inch long. Calyx-glumes combined at 

 the base, sloped off at the point, 3 -ribbed, shaggy with long, 

 dense, soft, white hairs. Cor. ovate, acute, folded, keeled, with 

 2 distant green ribs at each side, and a rough dorsal awn, 

 scarcely, if at all, longer than the calyx. Styles short, combined. 

 Stigmas slender, feathery. 



No foreign author appears to have noticed this species. 



3. A. agrestis. Slender Fox-tail-grass. 



Stem erect, roughish. Spike racemose, nearly simple, ta- 

 pering. Calyx-glumes almost naked, combined at the 

 base, dilated at the keel. 



A. agrestis. Linn. Sp. PL 89. mild. v. 1. 357. Fl. Br. 73. Engl. 



Bot.v. 12. t. 848. Mart. Rust. t. 22. Knapp t. 16. Hook. 



Scot. 22. Schracl. Germ. v. 1. 1/1. Schreb. Gram. v. 1. MO. 



L19./.2. Leers 16. t. 2./. 5. Fl. Dan. t. 697. Ehrh. Phyt.7\. 



Sincl. 165. 

 A. myosuroides. Huds. ed. 1. 23. Curt. Lond.fasc.2. t. 7. 

 A. n. 1540. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 249. 

 Gramen myosuroides majus, spica longiore, aristis rectis. Raii 



Syn. 397. 

 G. spicatum, spica cylindracea, tenuissima, longiore. Scheuchz. 



Agr.69. t.2.f. 6, A, B. 

 G. alopecuroides, spica longa, tenuiore. Moris, v. 3. 192. sect. 8. 



tA.f. 12. 

 G. alopecurinum minus. Ger. Em. 11./. 

 jS. G. myosuroides minus, spica breviore, aristis recurvis. Rail 



Syn. 397. 



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