

pastures 



TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Dactylis. 



.quakes. Ladies-hair. Middle Quafo~grast. Fields and 



P. July.* 



149 



B. Spikets egg-shaped^ forming a bunch. 



Kniph. &~Jacq. obs. 60-Ger. em. 87. 3-Barr. ic. 15. 1- 



Scheuch. 4.7. 



The number of florets in each spiket very uncertain, but the 

 number of spikets in the panicle being rarely greater than from 

 6 to 7> sufficiently distinguishes it from the two preceding spe- 

 cies* which bear panicles with numerous spikets. Jacquin very 

 justly observes, that it bears a bunch of spikets rather than a pa-» 

 nicle, and that the spikets are rather egg than heart-shaped. 

 They are each about | of an inch long, and near \ inch broad. 



Great 2>jiake -grass. A native of the warmer parts of Europe ; 

 frequent in Italy, and I have seen it in Portugal, but lately it has 

 been observed to propagate itself in the vicinity of London, near 

 Newington Butts. — This spot, however, Mr. Symons informs 

 me, was accurately examined in 1797 without success. A.July. 



r. 



max ima. 



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DACTYLIS 



Cal, 



alved, many-flowered 



D 



valves broader on one side : Bl 

 inclosing the seed : Nectaries 2. 



ikes terminating, sometimes in pairs : florets not ex- 

 panding: straw and leaves stiff and straight. Hort. 



Kevv. 



Plate XXVIL— E. lot. 380. 



About a foot high. Straw curved at the base, then upright, 

 smooth, sheathed up to the spike. Leaves sheathing, smooth, 

 stiff, taper, 3 or 4 on each straw. Spikes 1, 2> or 3, smooth; 3 

 inches long, less than half inch broad. Florets pointing one way. 

 Cal. 1-flowered, keel-shaped, doubled together, hairy, unequal, 



Sl ttmg in a hollow of the spike-stalk. 

 &c. not the D. cynos. of Linnaeus. 



sft 



D. cynosuroidesy Huds. 



Marshes in Essex, and other parts of the 

 sea-coast. [Near Aldborough, Suffolk. Woodward. Near the 



J 



■D. Panicle crowded, pointing one way. 



P. Aug. Sept 



glomera'ta 



Cows, sheep, and goats eat it. If a seed is carefully dissected 

 ln a microscope, with a tine lancet the young plant will be found with 

 ll 8 roots and leaves pretty perfectly formed.— A grass of no value as a 

 Pasture grass, but only as it grows on such wet parts as better grasses 

 ^yould nor grow on, such places should be drained and nunuicd, anU 



then the herbage would soon be changed. Mr. Swayxe. 



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