Fesluca.]. GRAMINE^E. S0 ^ 



elongated, contracted; florets shorter than the awn, monan- 

 drous ; culm leafy in its upper part. Br. FL ed. 3. p. 49. E. 

 FL v. i. p. 143. E. Bot. t. 1412. 



Walls and barren places. Near Cork ; Mr. J. Drttmmond. County 

 of Derry ; Mr. D. Moore. Near Belfast ; Mr. Templeton. Fl. 

 June. ©.—Much resembling the last, but taller. One foot or more 

 high. Leaves rather shorter, their sheaths longer. Panicle often 

 four to five inches long. Calyx-valves and florets narrow, rather more 

 scabrous than in F. bromoides ; awns longer. 



6. F. tmiglumis, Soland. Single-glumed Fescue-grass. Pa- 

 nicle a simple, erect, 2-ranked, subsecund raceme; one valve 

 of the calyx obsolete. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 50. E. FL v. i.p. 143. 

 E. Bot. t. 1430. — Stipa membranacea, Linn. ? Sm. 



Portmarnock sand-hills. Fl. June. ©.—Varying in size from three 

 to four inches high in my Portmarnock specimens. This plant is re- 

 markable for the suppression of one of the valves of its calyx, by which 

 the species is at once known. 



7. F. calamaria, Sm. Reed Fescue-grass. Paniele sub- 

 secund, much branched, spreading, nearly erect; spikelets 

 oblong, awnless, 3— 5-flowered ; leaves linear-lanceolate. Br. 

 Fl. ed. 3. p. 50. E. Fl. v. i.p. 145. E. Bot. t. 1005.— Schedo- 

 norus sylvaticus, Beauv. Lindl. 



Mountain glens and woods. Dargle, Powerscourt Waterfall ; Wood- 

 stock, County of Kilkenny. Colin-Glen near Belfast, and Ness-Glen, 

 County of Derry ; Mr. Templeton and Mr. D. Moore. Fl. July. 

 i;. Two to three feet high, with large and broad leaves. Calyx- 

 valves narrow, linear-lanceolate, very unequal, smaller one single- 

 nerved, larger with three nerves. Florets rather distant upon the 

 rachis. Ext. valve of corolla scabrous, lanceolato-acuminate. 



8. F. loliacea, Huds. Spiked Fescue-grass. Raceme spiked, 

 distichous; spikelets linear-oblong, nearly sessile, remote; 

 florets cylindrical, awnless, outer valve of corolla obtuse. Br. 

 Fl. ed. 3. p. 50. E. Fl. v. i. p. 146. E.Bot. t. 1821.— Schedo- 

 norus, Dumort. Lindl. 



Moist meadows and pastures, not unfrequent. Fl. June, July. %.. — 

 Two feet high. Leaves few, short, linear, acute. Racemes two to five 

 inches long ; rachis flexuose. Spikelets nearly sessile, especially the 

 upper ones, five to six-flowered. Calyx-valves unequal, lanceolate, 

 acute, 7-ribbed. Outer valves of the corolla ovato-lanceolate, nerved, 

 diaphanous at the apex and obtuse, slightly scabrous only on the 

 nerves. 



9. F. pratensis, Huds. Meadow Fescue-grass. Panicle 

 patent, branched ; spikelets linear, many-flowered ; florets cy- 

 lindrical, awnless, outer valve of corolla acute ; leaves linear; 

 root fibrous. Br. FL ed. 3. p. 50. E. Fl. v. i. p. 147. E. Bot. 

 t. 1592. — Schedonorus, Beauv. Lindl. 



Moist meadows and pastures, common. Fl. June, July. %.— One 

 to two feet high. Distinguished at first sight from the preceding by 

 its panicled (not spiked) raceme ; also by the florets, which, though 



