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Dr. Smith for this discovery. See his I cones Plant, fasc. ilL p. 

 54. In general habit the plants are certainly very much alike, 

 but the real Agr. capillar]* has the stem, the leaves, and the 

 husks of the calyx quite smooth, as well as every other part of 

 the plant, whilst in the Agr. vulgaris the stem leaves are rough, 

 and the husks of the calyx are serrulated on the keel as they are 

 in every other British species of Agrostis, except the mbiima. 

 Again, in the capillaris the valves of the blossoms arc equal, but in 

 the A. vulgaris the inner valve is only half the size of the outer. 

 •■ A. capillaris. Huds. and Bot. arr. ed. ii. Very common, but 

 chiefly grows on poor dry and sandy land* It is disliked by cattle, 

 *s are the Bents in general. Mr. Swayke. P. May. July. 



Var. 2. dvoarf. 



Lightf. ii. frontispiece. 



Whether the plant Mr. Liohtfoot found in Scotland be the 

 real Agr. pumila of Linnaeus I have not the means of deciding, 

 but neither his fig, nor description well agree with the character 

 of that, the panicle not being 1 rowed, or pointing in one direc- 

 tion. The specimens now before me from Scotland and from 

 Yarmouth, are only starved plants of the Agr. vulgaris, and when 

 cultivated in a garden from seed, produced perfect plants of the 

 usual size and appearance* 



Dwarf Bent. Agr. poly morpha pumila. Huds. Agr. pumila. 



■Lightfoot. In poor barren soil. [Found on Yarmouth Danes, 

 by Mr. Woodward.] P. July. 



^ Var. 3. Sylvatica. Blossom after flowering growing out to 

 twice the length of the calyx. 



Agrostis poly?norpha sylvatica. Hudson. Gramen miliaceum 

 sylvestre glumis oblongis. Pet. cone. 121. Ray Syn. 404 « Buddles 



Woodmillet-grass, first discovered by him in Bishop's Wood, 

 Hamstead. Agr. sylvatica, Linn, if he has rightly quoted Ray, 

 and Hudson, but he speaks as if the calyx and not the bloss. was 

 the elongated part. The seed also grows unnaturally long and 

 black. The blackness on the main fruit-stalk and at the base of 

 many of the florets indicate a state of disease, but whether it is 

 produced by an insect, or a kind of smut, remains to be deter- 

 mined, though I think it probably the effect of too much moisture. 

 In one specimen the calyx was preternaturally long and dark 

 purple at the end, but still the greatest elongation was that of 

 the blossom. 



In Hornsey Wood. Huds. P. June. Aug* 



A. Panicle very slender, like a thread. Linn. min'ima. 



, H. ox. viii. 2. ro-u 3. 10-C. B. th. 2b.-J. B. ii. 465. 4- 



Scheuch. 1.7-1. 



Plant about 2 inches high, very slender and of a delicate pale 



green ; smooth; even the valves of the calyx are smooth, which 



