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exceeding 6 inches in height. Leaves sheathing, the sheath part- 

 ing, from the straw when old, glaucous, hairy or pubescent 

 throughout. Spikes 4, diverging, dark purple, changing to ches- 

 nut colour, near 2 inches long, not more hairy than the other 

 parts of the plant. Florets all on one side of the spike-stalk, 

 awnless. Mr. Stackhouse. 



Creeping Panick. Sandy grounds, sea-shore. Between Pen- 

 zance and Market-jeu, Cornwall. Ray. [And lately again in 

 the same place by Mr. Stackhouse.] P. July. 



PHLEUM. Cal. 2-valved, sitting, strap- shaped, 



lopped, ending in 2 dagger points, inclosing 

 the blossom. 



P. Spike egg-shaped, fringed : straw branched. — See Pha*- arena'rium 



laris arenana. * 



P. Panicle cylindrical, spike-like; husks naked: straw panicula'tum 



sometimes branched. Huds. 



Barr. 28. 2-Ger. 10. 1-C. B. th. 51-J. B. 11. 471. 3~Spi£e, 

 Mont. 53. 



Mr. Dryander believes this plant of Mr. Hudson's may 

 probably be the same as the Phalaris aspera of Retz. obs. iii. n. 

 36 ; see Linn. Tr. ii. p. 217* I shall therefore subjoin the follow- 

 ing description from Retzius, to enable the English botanist to 

 determine the point. 



Ph. aspera. Panicle cylindrical, spike-like : calyx inversely 



heart-shaped, dagger-pointed. 



Root annual. Straw 9 inches high, upright, sheathed and 

 branched at the base. Leaves narrow, naked, short. Panicle spike, 

 like, 1 to 4 inches long, thick as a goose-quill. Calyx inversely 

 heart-shaped, pale green, hard, husks equal, bellying upwards, 

 ending in dagger-points: slightly keeled. Bloss. husks equal. 

 Seedo\d\ 3 oblong, but slightly compressed. Grows on mountains % 

 m the South of Europe. Retzius. Sheaths of the leaves rough, 

 Sheath-scale blunt. Panicle bending to one side. Calyx sitting, 

 tiled, 2-valved, 1-flowered, pointed, bellying upwards. Bloss. 2 

 valves, awnless, shorter than the calyx. Hudson; who himself 

 believed it to be the same as the Phalaris phleoides of Linn. 



Branched Timothy-grass. Meadows below King's Weston, 

 near Bristol. Newmarket-heath* [Gogmagog hills, Cambridge. 

 Mr. Woodward. — Boumbridge, Cambridgeshire. Mr. Crowe.] 



P.Aug. 



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P. Spike cylindrical, very long: calyx fringed, and awned: praten^e. 



straw upright. 



Var. 1. larger. Straw upright* 





