84 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Knappia. 



very liairV) fringed, awiiless valves, rather shorter than 

 the caiyx ; the larger embracing the inner one. Filam. 

 capillary, twice as long as the calyx. AntJi. elliptic-ob- 

 long, cloven at each end, erect, with 2 minute terminal 

 beaks. Germ, minute, roundish. Styles very short. Stig- 

 mas rather longer than the stamens, cylindrical, downy, 

 acute. Seed loose, covered by the corolla, obovate, " co- 

 ])iously dotted in longitudinal lines." Hooker. 

 Only one species is known. 



1. Y^. agrostidea. Early Knappia. 



K. agrostidea. Engl. But. v. 16. t. II 27. Comp. 13. Knapp t.WO. 



Davies Welch Botanol, 9. Hook. Lond. t.Q\. 

 Agrostis minima, Linn. Sp. PL 93. ffVld. v. 1. 3/2. Fl. Br. 82. 



Huds. 32. StiUingJi. Misc. prcef. 28. 

 Chamagrostis minima. Sclirad. Germ. v. 1. 158. 

 Gramen sparteam, capillaceo folio, minimum. Dill. Giss. append. 



172. ^.16./. 1. 

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

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



Scheuchz. Agr. 40. t.X.f. 7, I. 

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



Dub. 15. ^ 

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



secL8. 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. Stillingfleet in Wales. Huds. Frequent 

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



Annual. March, April. 



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

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

 bottom, vrhere 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 fiowers, 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. FL, 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 

 partlv, as it seems, composed of ^opu, fodder, has been over- 

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



