82 TR1ANDRIA-— DIGYNIA. Alopecurus. 



In cultivated fields, and by way sides. 



Annual. July, 



Root small, fibrous. Sterna several, l£ or 2 feet high, erect, leafy, 

 roughish to the touch in the upper part. Leaves pale, rough 

 above, with longish swelling sheaths, and each an oblong downy 

 stipula. Spike slender, tapering at each end, 3 inches long, often 

 purplish • the partial stalks almost entirely simple, and close- 

 pressed. Calyx- glumes combined a good way up, lanceolate, 

 narrow, a little downy at the edge ; their keel dilated, but far 

 less fringed than in A. pratensis. Cor. smooth. Awn twice the 

 length of the calyx. Sty/es short, united. Stigmas thrice as long, 

 slender, downy. 



]3, in Buddie's herbarium, is a very trifling variety, merely starved. 



4. A. bulbosas. Bulbous Fox-tail-grass. 



Stem erect. Spike tapering, perfectly simple. Calyx-glumes 

 distinct, linear, pointed, downy. Root bulbous. 



A. bulbosus. Linn. Sp. PL 1665. Willd. v. 1 . 356. Fl. Br. 73. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 18. t. 1249. Knapp t. 17. 



Gramen myosuroides nodosum. Dill. in Raii Syn.397. t.20.f.2. 



G. typhinum phalaroides, pilosa spica, aquaticum bulbosum. Bar- 

 rel. Ic. *. 699./. 1. 



In wet salt marshes, rare. 



First found by James Sherard, but the place is omitted by Dillenius. 

 On the north side of Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. In Cardiff 

 marshes, Glamorganshire, and near the Aust passage. Rev. 

 Mr. Lightfoot's herbarium. Near Weymouth. Mr. Lambert. 



Perennial. July. 



Root of several, aggregate, ovate, solid, fleshy bulbs, sometimes 

 one above the other, with fibres beneath. Ste?ns solitary from 

 the top of each bulb, slender, round, smooth, leafy, with 2 joints, 

 occasionally bent at the lowermost, otherwise erect, about a 

 span high. Leaves narrow, striated, slightly channelled or con- 

 cave j those on the stem with long swelling sheaths. Stipula 

 lanceolate, short. Spike racemose, but hardly branched, the 

 partial stalks very short. Calyx-glumes broader, and less linear, 

 than they appear in Engl. Bot., being somewhat dilated upward, 

 and bordered at the keel ; they are minutely downy, or hoary 

 all over, with purplish ribs and point, the keel and ribs fringed. 

 Corolla bluntish, one third shorter than the calyx ; its awn 

 twice as long. Anthers scarcely protruding beyond the glumes. 

 Styles combined, short. Siigmas linear, downy, extending a little 

 beyond the calyx. The calyx-glumes are certainly not combined 

 in this species, which obliges me, with regret, to reject that part 

 of Schreber's and Schrader's generic character. Foreign bota- 

 nists seem unacquainted with this grass, nor have all those of 

 our own country known it well. None can be more invariably 

 distinct. 



