J 50 FRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuoa. 



B. pinnatus. Fl. Dan. t. 164. 

 Triticum n. 1432. Hall. Hist. v. '2. 213. 

 Graraen avenaceum dumetorum spicatum. Rati Syn. 394. 

 G. loliaceum corniculatum latifolium, spicis teretiusculia angustis 

 et glabris. Scheuchz. Agr. 36. 



In dry copses, thickets, and hedges, not rare. 



Perennial. July, 



Root fibrous, tufted. Stems 2 feet high, or more, round, leafy, 

 simple, smooth or a little hairy • very slender, naked, and some- 

 what inclining at the top. Leaves spreading, flat, pointed, ribbed, 

 rough, more or less hairy, bright green ; tawny or yellow 

 towards autumn, but lasting long. Sheaths close, hairy. Stipula 

 short, blunt, notched, or torn. Spike simple, from 3 inches to 

 a span long, drooping at the top, rarely divided at the bottom. 

 Spikelets alternate, sessile, slender, an inch or more in length, 

 generally hairy, inclining more or less to one side ; their com- 

 mon stalk wavy, angular, scarcely rough. Calyx-glumes unequal, 

 lanceolate, many-ribbed, hairy j the smaller pointed ; larger 

 awned. Florets from 6 to 9, or more, imbricated, somewhat cy- 

 lindrical ; keeled, ribbed, fringed, and hairy at the upper part, 

 with a terminal awn ; inner valve linear, flat, abrupt, indexed at 

 the ribs, which are strongly fringed. Nect. of 2 acute scales. 

 Germen elliptical. Styles very short. Stigmas small, feathery. 

 Seed linear, channelled, quite unconnected with the glumes 

 which enfold it. 



The perfectly loose seed has determined me to adopt the opinion 

 of those eminent botanists, who, contrary to my former deter- 

 mination, still refer this plant and the following to Festuca. The 

 narrow cylindrical florets, and terminal awns, strengthen this 

 opinion ; though the inner valve of the corolla is, in F. sylvatica, 

 more strongly fringed than is proper to the present genus. The 

 original name, given by Hudson, is, however, more conveniently 

 retained for this species, than for my F. calamaria, n. 9, as 

 having been so generally in use. 



3 4. F. phinata. Spiked Heath Fescue-grass. 



Spike simple, erect, two-ranked. Spikelets nearly cylindri- 

 cal. Awns shorter than their glumes. Leaves nearly 

 smooth. Root somewhat creeping. 



F. pinnata. Huds. 48. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 13. 8. Knapp t. 75. 



Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 342: 

 Bromus pinnatus. Linn. Sp. PL 115. Willd. v. 1. 438. Fl. 



Br.\37. Engl. Bot.v.U. t. 730. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 301. 



Rel. Rudb. 1 i. Sincl. 275. Pollich v. 1. 1 17. Weig. Obs. 14. 



t. 1./.10. Host Gram.vA. 18. ^. 22. Leers 39. U0./.3. 

 Triticum n. 1431. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 212. 



