TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuca. 149 



F. arundinacea. Schreb. Spied. 57. Ehrh. Calam. 125. Villars 

 Dauph.v. 2. 106. t. 4. 



Bromus littoreus. Willd. Sp. PL v. I. 14. Host Gram. v. 1. 7. t. 8. 



Sincl. 259. 

 B. n. 1511. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 238. 

 Gramen arundinaceum aquaticum, panicula avenacea. Rail Syn. 



411. 



G. paniculatum nemorosum, latiore folio, glabrum, panicula nu- 

 tante non aristata. Dill, in Raii Syn. 41 1 5 but the plant of Mi- 

 cheli is F. calamaria, n. 9. 



G. loliaceum, spica divisa, pratense majus. Moris, v. 3. 183. sect. 8. 

 t.2.f. 15. 



G. arundinaceum, locustis viridi-spadiceis loliaeeis, brevius aris- 

 tatis. Scheuchz. Agr. 266. t. b.f. 18. 



Dover Grass. Herb. Sherard. 



In moist meadows, osier- grounds, and the borders of ditches and 

 ponds, much less frequent than the last. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root somewhat creeping, with downy fibres, penetrating deeply 

 into the mud or clay. Stem about four feet high, reedy, striated, 

 smooth, leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, twice or thrice as broad 

 as the preceding, and much longer, many-ribbed, smooth, except 

 at the edges. Sheaths very long, smooth. Stipula much like 

 the last. Panicle a foot or more in length, repeatedly compound, 

 spreading in every direction. Every part is nearly twice the 

 size of F. pratensis. Spikelets ovate, less compressed, rather 

 more glaucous, and less purple. Ft. sometimes with consider- 

 able awns, generally with the rudiments of them, just below the 

 cloven membranous summit of the outer valve of the corolla. 

 Nect. with 4 upright points. 



A coarse but nutritious grass, making sometimes a considerable 

 part of the crop of marshland hay. 



13. F. sylvatica. Slender Wood Fescue-grass. 



Spike simple, drooping. Spikelets nearly cylindrical, turned 



to one side. Awns longer than their glumes. Leaves 



hairy. Root fibrous. 

 F. sylvatica. Huds. ed. 1 . 38. Mart. Rust. M 14. Knapp t. 76. 



Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 13. 9. Light/. 103. 

 F. pinnata /3. Huds. ed. 2. 48. 



F. gracilis. " Moench. Meth. 191." Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 3 43. 

 Bromus sylvaticus. Pollich v. I. 118. Fl. Br. 136. Engl. Bot. 



v.W.t. 729. TV. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 300. Hull 26. Hook. 



Scot.40. Sincl.273. Pourret Act. Tolos. v. 3. 308. Host Gram. 



v.\.\7.t.2\. 

 B. gracilis. Weig. Obs. 15. t. \.f. 1 1 . Roth Germ. v. 2. p. 1. 145. 



Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. 438. Ehrh. Calam. 107. 



