138 TllIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuca. 



C. echinatus. Linn. Sp. PL 105. Willd. ^^ 1 . 412. Fl. Br. 1 12. 

 Engl. Bot. t;. 1 9. ^. 1 333. Fl. Grac. i?. 1 . 6 1 . ^. 78. Knapp t. Qb. 

 Sincl. 211. Schrad. Germ. v. 1.315. Host Gram. v. 2. GJ. t. 95. 



C. n. 154G. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 251 ? 



Gramen alopecuroides, spica aspera. Bauh. Prodr. 1 0./. Theatr. 58. 

 /. 59. Svheuchz. Agr SO. t. 2./. 8. B, D. Rail Syn. 397. 



G. paniceum, spicii aspera latiore. Moris, v. 3. 1 S9. sect. 8. t.4.f.\o. 



On sandy ground in the south of England, towards the sea. 



Common in Jersey. SJierard. Near Sandwich. Hiidsoii. Near 

 Hastings, but very sparingly. Bishop of Carlisle. Sussex. Mr. 

 Sower by. 



Annual. July. 



Root with downy fibres, as usual in grasses inhabiting a loose sand. 

 Stems one or more, smooth, round, leafy, 10 — 20 inches high. 

 Leaves rough ish, broad at their base, tapering to a sharp point. 

 Sheaths two-edged, swelling, roughish. Stipulas lanceolate, the 

 uppermost longest. Spike dense, various in luxuriance, distin- 

 guished by the elegantly pectinated neuter spikelets at the back, 

 and bristly with the long rough aicns of the perfect ones in front. 



The late Mr. Davall suspected the larger-spiked variety. Barrel. 

 Ic. 1. 123. /. 2, might be a distinct species. It.is the Swiss plant, 

 and approaches C. elegans of Desfontaines, Atlant. v. 1. ^.17. 

 Ours has a smaller spike, with much few^er flowers. 



51. FESTUCA. Fescue-grass. 



Linn. Gen. 36. Juss. 32. Fl.Br.]\3. Lam. t. 46. 



Cal. of 2 very unequal, lanceolate, acute, pointed, concave, 

 keeled valves, containing an oblong, compressed, imbri- 

 cated spikelet^ of many alternate, two-ranked, more or less 

 awned, ])eY^ect florets. Cor. of 2 unequal valves ; the outer 

 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. Ncct. 

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

 acute scales. Filam. capillar}^, shorter than the cor, Anth. 

 linear, j^endulous, notched at each end. Germcn 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 narrows Ft. panicled, often 

 purplibh, nearly or quite erect. 



