TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuca. 139 



generally nearly cylindrical, entire, pointed or awned, 

 keeled, concave, scarcely compressed, more or less ribbed, 

 longer than the calyx, a little inflexed at the edges ; inner 

 narrower, elliptic-oblong, two-ribbed, cloven or abrupt at 

 the summit, the margins membranous, folded in at each 

 rib, which is, for the most part, downy externally. Nect. 

 of 1, deeply divided, or of 2 separate, sometimes cloven, 

 acute scales. Filam. capillary, shorter than the cor. Anth. 

 linear, pendulous, notched at each end. Germen turbinate. 

 Styles distant, short. Stigmas feathery. Seed oblong, with 

 a longitudinal furrow, acute, quite loose, though closely 

 enveloped in the unchanged corolla. 



Root annual, or perennial. Stems erect, or spreading, leafy, 

 knotty. Leaves generally narrow. Fl. panicled, often 

 purplish, nearly or quite erect. 



Schreber and Schrader, great authorities, assert the seed to 

 be attached to the corolla, as well as closely enveloped in 

 its glumes. But on a careful examination of many of the 

 most genuine species, this does not prove correct. There 

 is no connection, or union of the parts in question ; nor 

 is the corolla at all hardened, enlarged, or altered, as it 

 always is when united with the ripening seed. 



1. F. ovina. Sheep's Fescue-grass. 



Panicle unilateral, rather close. Florets cylindrical, pointed 

 or awned ; smooth at the base, and at the edges of the 

 inner valve. Stem square. Leaves folded, bristle-shaped. 

 Stipula short and obtuse. 



F.ovina. Linn. Sp. PL 108. Mild. v. 1.419. Fl. Br. 113. Engl. 



Bot. v. 9. t. 585. Mart. Rust. t. 102. Knappt.66. Hook. Scot. 38. 



Schrad Germ. "w. 1.319. Host Gram. v. 2. 60. t. 84. Leers 32. 



t.8.f 3. 

 Gramen foliolis junceis brevibus majus, radice nigra. Baich. 



Prodr. 1 1 . Theatr. 73. Scheuchz. Agr. 2/9. t. 6.f 8. 



|S. Festuca rubra. With. 153 ; from the author. 



y. F. csesia. Engl Bot. v. 27. t. 1917. Comp. 1 7. 



8. F. tenuifolia. Sibth. Oxon. 44. Schrad. Germ. v. 1.318. 



F. ovina /3. Leers 33. t. 8.f. 4. 



F. ovina. Ehrh. Calam. 53. 



F. duriuscula. Villars Dauph. 98 ; from the author. 



Gramen capillaceum locustellis pennatis non aristatis. Raii Syn. 

 410. Pluk. Phyt. t.34.f 2. Scheuchz. Agr. 275. t. 6.f. 6, 



G. foliolis junceis brevibus minus. Bauh. Theatr. 73. f; though 

 the glumes are said in the description to be awned. 



