TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Polypogon. 85 



principle, have been generally neglected. The construction of 

 this word is evidently incorrect, and to restore it would prove 

 more inconvenient than instructive. See Beauvais A<j[r. introd. (). 



33. POLYPOGON. Beard-grass. 



Desfont. Atlant. v. 1. G6. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 192, Comp. 7. Br. 

 Prodr. 173. Beauv. Agr. 17. t. 6./. 8. 



Cal. of 2 nearly equal, folded, keeled valves, cloven at the 

 summit ; each with a terminal, straight, rough awn., pro- 

 ceeding from the keel ; containing a single floret. Cor. 

 .of 2, somewhat unequal, ovate, concave valves, much 

 shorter than the calyx, and inclosed within it : the outer 

 keeled, terminating in a rough awn ; the inner smallest, 

 aw^nless, with 2 ribs, cloven at the summit. Filam. ca- 

 })illary, about the length of the corolla. Anth. terminal, 

 oblong, cloven at each end. Gcrmcn oval. Styles short, 

 distinct. Stigm. feathery. Seed loose, ovate, polished, 

 covered b}' the corolla. The terminal straight awn of 

 the corolla is totally distinct in nature from the dorsal, 

 jointed, twisted, inconstant awn of an Agrostis. 



Root fibrous or creeping, annual or perennial. Stems 1 or 

 more, simple or branched, jointed, leafy. Leaves roughish. 

 Panicle erect, compound, dense, ' lobed, bristly from the 

 copious a-isjns of the numerous, small, crowdcd^oterr.?. 



1. V . monspeliensls . Annual Beard-grass. 



Awns strai^^'ht, thrice as long as the calyx. Root fibrous. 



P. monspeliensis. Desfont. Atlant. v. 1. 67. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 



192. Comp. 13. Marsch. Taur. Cauc. v. I. 48. 

 Alopecurus monspeliensis. Linn. Sp. PL 89. JFiiJi. 121. 

 A. aristiitus. Huds. 28. 



A. altera maxima anglicapaludosu. Moris. i-.3. 191. sect.S. f.4.f.3. 

 A. maxima unglica. Raii Sijn. 396. 

 Phleum crinitum. Sc/ireb. Gram. v.\. lo 1 . t. 20. f. 3. FL Br. 71 . 



Fl. GrcEc. V. 1. 46. t.62. 

 Agrostis panicea. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.v.\. 148, mild. v. 1 . 363. 



Fngl.Bot u. 24. t. 1704. 

 A. triaristata. Knapp t.23. 

 Gramen alopecurum mujus, sj)!cri viresccnte divulsa, pilis longiori- 



bus. Barrel. Ic. t. 115./. 2. Scheuchz. Agr. l.")5. 

 (d. Alopecurus paniceus. Linn. Sp. PL 90. ff'ith. 121. 

 Cynosurus pauiccus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 73. 

 (iramen alopecurum minus, «pica virescente divulsa. Barrel. Ic. 



1. 115 /; 1. 



