TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Polypogon. 85 



G. minimum. Dalech. Hist. 424./. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 465./. 

 G. minimum, paniculis elegantissimis. Bauh. Thealr. 26. /. 



Scheuchz. Agr. 40. t. 1./. 7, 1. 

 G. minimum anglo-britannicum. Lob. lllustr. 20. Rail Indie. PL 



Dub. 15. 

 G. loliaceum tenuissimum, unciale aut biunciale. Moris, v. 3. 182. 



sect. 8. t.2.f. 10. 



In sandy maritime pastures, very rare. 



A few miles from Lee, Essex, near the mouth of the Thames. 

 Lobel. Found by Mr. Still ingfleet in Wales. Huds. Frequent 

 on the south-west coast of Anglesea. Rev. Hugh Davies. 



Annual. March, April. 



Root of many long slender fibres. Stems 1 to 3 inches high, erect, 

 simple, slender, smooth, triangular, naked, except at the very 

 bottom, where they are invested with the membranous sheaths 

 of a few short, obtuse, channelled leaves. Stipula membranous, 

 bluntish, cloven, but not deeply divided. Spikes solitary, simple, 

 erect, of from 6 to 1 Jlowers, mostly sessile, alternate, erect ; 

 2 or 3 of the lowermost only more or less stalked ; their common 

 stalk zigzag, slender, smooth, angular, but not excavated as in 

 the truly spiked grasses. Ft., like the top of the stem, purplish. 

 Cor. white and feathery. 



This little grass, well known on the coasts of France, soon disap- 

 pears after shedding its seeds. The name of Chamagrostis, com- 

 posed of Agrostis already established, is inadmissible. Mibora 

 of Adanson, whose meaning is not explained, but which is 

 partly, as it seems, composed of fiopa, fodder, has been over- 

 looked, because that author's names, so often founded on a bad 

 principle, have been generally neglected. The construction of 

 this word is evidently incorrect, and to restore it would prove 

 more inconvenient than instructive. See Beauvais Agr. introd. 6. 



33. POLYPOGON. Beard-grass. 



Desfont. Atlant. v. 1. 66. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 192. Comp. 7. Br. 

 Prodr. 173. Beauv. Agr. 17. t. 6.f. 8. 



Col. of 2 nearly equal, folded, keeled valves, cloven at the 

 summit ; each with a terminal, straight, rough aw?i, pro- 

 ceeding from the keel ; containing a single floret. Cor. 

 of 2, somewhat unequal, ovate, concave valves, much 

 shorter than the calyx, and inclosed within it : the outer 

 keeled, terminating in a rough awn ; the inner smallest, 

 awnless, with 2 ribs, cloven at the summit. Filam. ca- 

 pillary, about the length of the corolla. Anth. terminal, 

 oblong, cloven at each end. Germen oval. Styles short, 

 distinct. Stigm. feathery. Seed loose, ovate, polished, 

 covered by the corolla. The terminal straight awn of 



