

TRTANDRTA. DIGYNIA. Milium. 



preceding, sheathing the straw quite up to the top, the sheath 

 much wider than the thickness of the straw, and widest up- 

 wards. Spike-like panicle cylindrical, 2 inches long, \ inch 

 broad, pale green* Anthers fine orange, so that the flowering 

 plant may be distinguished at some distance* I suspect that this 

 will prove to be a distinct species. 



[In a marshy place by the Stews in Edgbaston Park.] 



P. Aug. Sept. 



Panicle 



to 



Kniph. 12-//. ox. viii. 4. row 2. 3-Pari. 1 i66* 3~Panlcle % 

 Barr. 115. 2. 



Resembles Al. paniceus, but thrice as large. Calyx husks 

 rough, but smooth at the edge ; both valves awned. Linn. 



Bearded Foxtail Grass. Marshes and wet pastures. Pur- 

 fleet, Essex. About 2 miles from Portsmouth, near Drayton, 



Ray. 



A. June, July. 



A. Panicle spike-like : calyxes set with soft hairs : blos- 

 soms awned. 



Krttph. 12~Schreb. 20. 3-Barr. 115. l-Buxb. v. 66. 1. 



Very much resembles A. monspeliensis, but the whole plant 

 is soft, and only 5 or 6* inches high. Calyx husks downy ; 

 woolly at the edges. Linn. Bioss. 2 valves, awn the length of 

 the larger valve, issuing from its point. Spikes full 1 inch long, 

 and 5 inch broad. Both this and the preceding species having a 

 bloss. with 2 valves, do not well accord with the Generic charac- 

 ter, nor does the shape of the calyx allow them to arrange with 

 the Phleums as was proposed by Schreber. They will probably 

 sometime be arranged under a new genus, with something like 

 the following Essential Character. Calyx 2-valved, valves 

 fringed, I -flowered ; Bloss. 2 valves, outer valve awned. 



Dry soil. 



A. July, 



MILIUM. Cat. 2-valved, 1 -flowered; valves 



nearly equal: Bloss. very short: Summits 



pencil-shaped. 



M. Panicle spike-like : flowers with awns. 



Schreb. 23. 3-Pluk. 33. 6-Gouan. horU 1. 2-Branch of the 

 panicle, Sckeuch. 3. 1 J. C 



Panicle strap-spear-shaped, glossy, 1 £ to 3 inches long, f to \ 

 inch broad. Calyx bellying, polished, and colourless at the 

 base, finely serrulated at the edges, the longer valve awn pointed. 



121 



spell 



en 



pani'ceus, 



lendi'gerum. 



