90 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Agrostis. 



G. segctum altissimum, panicula spars;!. Scheuchz. Agr. 144. 



t. 3.f. 10. A, B. Bauh. Theatr. 33./. 34. 

 G. harundinaceum. Ger. Em. 5.f. 

 G. agrorum venti spica. Park. Theatr. 1 158./. Lob. Tc. 3.f. 



In sandy corn-fields, occasionally overflowed, but not very common. 



In several parts of Norfolk ; and near Warrington, Lancashire. 

 Near Kingston upon Thames. Bishop of Carlisle. Between 

 Kennington and Camberwell. Mr. Groult. At Walthamstow. 

 Mr. E. Forster. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root of many thick whorled fibres. Stems one or more, 2 or 3 feet 

 high, erect, leafy, smooth, jointed near the base, unbranched. 

 Leaves spreading, ribbed -, a little downy above j rough beneath j 

 their sheaths long, ribbed, smooth. Stipula jagged. Panicle 

 large, silky in appearance, leaning to one side, and elegantly 

 waving with the wind ; its branches numerous, in alternate 

 bundles, finely subdivided, rough and angular upwards. Cal. 

 and Cor. polished, often purplish - } outer valve of the latter 

 rough with minute tubercles, and remarkable for its long 

 straight awn -, inner minutely cloven at the point. Seed mi- 

 nute, ovate, pointed, very smooth. 



2. A. canina. Brown Bent-grass. 



Awn incurved, from below the middle of the corolla ; inner 

 valve obsolete. Calyx ovate, coloured. Stems decum- 

 bent, with prostrate shoots. Stipula lanceolate. 



A. canina. Linn. Sp. PL 92. mild. v. 1.367. Fl. Br. 78. Engl. 



Bot. v. 26. t. 1856. Knapp t.2\. Hook. Scot. 24. Leers 19. 



tA.f. 2. Hoffm. Germ, for J800. 34. t. 6. 

 A. vinealis. With. 127. 

 A. stricta. Sincl. 151. 



Trichodium caninum. Schrad. Genu. v. 1. 198. 

 Avena n. 1479. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 227. 

 Gramen paniculatum supinum, ad infima culmorum genicula fo- 



liorum capillarium fasciculis donatum. Scheuchz. Agr. 141. t. 3. 



/•9, C. 



/3. Huds. 30, excluding the synonyms. 



Agrostis tenuifolia. Curt. Brit. Gr. 42, without an awn. 



A. fascicularis. Sincl. 155. 



In meadows and pastures, especially in damp boggy places, common. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping, with downy fibres, and many trailing leafy shoots. 

 Stems several, more or less decumbent, and taking root, at the 

 lower joints j from 1 to 3 feet long, leafy, ascending, slender, 

 smooth. Leaves roughish on both sides, narrow, especially in 

 the radical tufts, where they are, as Professor Schrader remarks, 

 quite setaceous, and by the presence of such tufts this species is 



