114 ' TRIANDRIA. DlGYNIA. Panicum. 



Manured Canary Grass. Road-sides and uncultivated 

 ground. [New's-Wood, adjoining to Malvern, Worcestershire. 

 Mr* Ballard.] A. June — Sept.* 



arena'ria. P. Spike egg-shaped^ fringed : straw branched. 



Fl. dan. $l$-£ hot. 222-Pluk. 33. 8-Afo*/.74. Spike only. 



Spike egg-oblong. Cah valves spear-shaped, not lopped, 

 not furnished with 2 dagger points, which give such a striking 

 appearance to the Phleums ; fringed with hairs along the keel. 

 Straw branched at the bottom. 



Phleum arenarium. Linn, which see. Sea Timothy-grass. 



Sandy shores. [At Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. — Newborough 

 Sands, Anglesea. Mr. Griffith.] A. July, Aug. 



phleoi'des. P. Panicle cylindrical, spike-like^ smooth: here and there 



viviparous. 



E. hot. 45S-FI. dan. 531-Viviparous floret, Scheuch* 2. 5. C. 



Spike pale, divisible into lobes. So exactly resembles some 

 of the Phleums, that it may be easily mistaken for one of that 

 enus ; but when you examine the spike and press it with your 

 ngers, it separates, and proves to be a panicle ; and the Husks 

 are not notched at the end. Flowers different from those of the 

 Phieum. It is a kind of intermediate plant between the Phalarisi 

 Phleum, and Alopecurus. Linn. A stiff awn-like thread rises 

 from the base of the inner valve, I -3d of its length, analogous to 

 -that of Arundo arenaria. St. Never found any of the florets 

 viviparous. Woodward. From 10 to 15 inches high. Panicle 

 from near 2 to 3£ inches long, thick as a goose quill. 



'at's-tail Canary. High, dry, and sandy soil. [Fi 



C 



irst dis- 



Woodward and Mr 



nearSwaffTiaro, Norfolk, in 1/80.] P. June, July. 



arundina'cea. P. Panicle oblong, bellying, large. See Calamagrostis 



variegata. 



PA'NICUM. Cah 2-valved, 2-flowered : 1 floret 



hermaphrodite, the other male, or else neutral. 



verticilla'tum.P. Spike cylindrical, rough when stroked downwards: 



partial involucrums with 2 bristles and 1 floret. 



Dicks, h. i.-Curt.-H. ox. viii.4. 1 \-Qer. U-C. B. th. 139- 

 Park. 1177. '--J- B. ii. 469. l-Ger.em. 15. 1. 



* It is often cultivated for the sake of the seeds, which are found to 

 be the best food for the Canary, and other small birds. It nourishes the 

 Coccus pbalaridisy not properly a native, but is become naturalized, though 

 originally from the Canary island*. 



