120 TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Alopecurus. 



* Spike 2 to 4 inches long, hardly \ inch broad, of a kind of lead 

 colour. Calyx 1 leaf, divided rather more than halfway down, 



Var. 2. Spike shorter. Awns bowed back. Ray Syn. p. 397* 



n. 2. 



Cornfields 



Wight 



very common.] A very troublesome weed in piany places among 

 wheat, and execrated by the farmers under the name of Black 

 Bent. Mr. Swayne. P. May, June. 



bulbo'sus. A. Straw upright : spike cylindrical : root bulbous. 



Barr. 6GQ, l-Ray 20. 1-Mont. 54. 



Root not creeping nor sending out suckers. Straw never strik- 

 ing root at the joints, never kqee-jointed. Spike dark glaucous 

 green, but not so black as in the bulbous variety of Al. genicu- 

 latus. Anthers in this deep glaucous blue, in the variety of geni- 

 culatus the colour of rusty iron. Woodward. Spike I to if 

 inch long. Awns barely twice the length of the calyx ; little 

 fruit-stalks branched . 



Alopecurus geniculates bulbosus. Huds. Bulbous Foxtail. In 



the first field next the road before you go into Northfleet. Huds. 

 [In a salt marsh near Yarmouth. Mr. Woodw.] P. June, July. 



geniculars. A. Spiked straw knee-jointed. (Sp. PI.) 



Var. 1. Awns twice as long as the blossom : root fibrous. 

 Curt. 339-Fl. dan. $6l-H. ox. viii. 4. row 2. lb-Leers 2. 7 

 -Scheuch. 2. 6. C. D. E. 



Upper leaves 1 to if inch above the sheathing part. Spikes 

 if inch long. Awns full twice as long as the calyx. Anthers 



purplish, changing to dull yellow. 

 Meadow 



J 



Var. 2. Awns longer than the blossom : root bulbous : sheaths 

 wider than the thickness of the straw. Awns barely twice the . 

 length of the calyx. Anthers purple, changing to brown yellow. 



fOn a bo? at the source of the Yar : Fresh Water Gate, Isle 



Wight 



May 



Var. 3. Awns more than twice the length of the blossom • 

 root bulbous. 



[In fiat meadows at Highbridge in the parish of Hantspilli 

 Somersetshire. ] June. 



Var, 4. Awns very fine and soft, not longer than the blos- 

 som : Root fibrous. 



Tab. hist. l.p.5l<:-C. B. th. \<1-Gcr. em. 14. <i~?arh 



1275.7. 

 From the fineness and shortness of the awns this has the ap- 

 pearance of being awnkss. Leaves broader than in any of the 



