TRIAXDRIA— DIGYNIA. FesUica. 139 



Schrebcr and Schrader, great authorities, assert the seed to 

 be attached to the corolla, as well as closely enveloped in 

 its glumes. But on a careful examination of many of the 

 most genuine species, this does not prove correct. There 

 is no connection, or union of the parts in question ; nor 

 is the corolla at all hardened, enlarged, or altered, as it 

 always is when united with the ripening seed. 



1 . F. ovina. Sheep's Fescue-grass. 



Panicle unilateral, rather close. Florets cylindrical, pointed 

 or awned ; smooth at the base, and at the edges of the 

 inner valve. Stem square. Leaves folded, bristle-shaped. 

 Stipula short and obtuse. 



F. ovina. Lim}. Sp. PL 108. Mllld. r. 1 . 419. Fl. Br. 1 13. £»-/. 



Bot. V. 9. t.rjS'). Mart. Rust. t. 102. Knapp t. 66. Hook. Scot. 38. 



Schrad. Germ. r. 1 . 3 19. Host Gram. v. 2. CO. t. 84. Leers 32. 



^.8./. 3. 

 Gramen foliolis junceis brevibus majus, radice nigra. Bauh. 



Prodr. 11. Theafr. 73. Scheuchz. Agr. 279. t. 6.f. 8. 

 /3, Festuca rubra. IVith. 153 ; from the author. 

 y. F. csesia. En»l. Bot. v. 27. ^.1917. Comp. 17. 

 $. F. tenuifolia. Sibfh. Oxon. 44. Schrad. Germ. r. 1. 318. 

 F. ovina /3. Leers 33. t. S.f. 4. 

 F. ovina. Ehrh. Calam. .53. 



F. duriuscula. nilars Daitph. 98; from the author. 



Gramen capillaceum locustellis pennatis non aristatis. Raii Syn. 

 4 1 0. Pluk. Phyt. t. 34./. 2. Scheuchz. Agr. 2/5. t. 6.f 6. 



G. foliolis junccis brevibus minus. Bauh. Theatr. 73. f; though 

 the glumes are said in the description to be awned. 



G. loliaceum, foliolis brevibus junceis, minus. Moris, v. 3. 182. 

 sect.S. t.3.f.\3. 



In dry open pastures, very common. 



Perennial. June. 



Root of numerous, long, capillary, smooth, blackish fibres. Stems 

 from 6 to 12 inches high, erect, slender, rather rigid, smooth ; 

 leafy below ; square in the upper part. Leaves chiefly radical, 

 very numerous, composing dense tufts, linear, acute, folded, or 

 involute, so as to be quite bristle-shaped, or capillary, roughish, 

 of a dull, sometimes glaucous, green. Sheatlis angular, or fur- 

 rowed. Stipula very shorty aftendcd at each side with more or 

 less of a polished tubercle at the top of the sheath, like a knot. 

 Panicle small, erect, slightly branched. Florets 4 or 5, nearly 

 cylindrical, acute, or awned, the keel scarcely prominent j the 

 upper part roughish with minute tubercles ; their inner valve 

 smooth at the ribs, or edges. The var. /3 hiis a more purjjlc 

 panidc \\v,\n usual ; \\\q florets in o have no awns, y is remarkable 



