TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Festuca. 155 



F. Panicle oblong, upright, branched: spikets awned, cam'brica* 

 smooth: leaves flat, naked. Huds. 



Root fibrous. Straw near a foot high : slanting, cylindrical, 

 leafy, smooth; with 2 or 3 joints. Roouleaves nearly upright: 

 sword-shaped, sharpish, channelled. Stem-leaves 2 or 3 ; on leaf- 

 stalks; sharpish, flat, fibrous. Leaf-stalk cylindrical, sheath- 

 ing, scored, hairy. Stipule membranaceous, sheathing, blunt* 

 Panicle rather compact, branched at the bottom. Spikets on 

 fruitstalks, about 6 florets in each, egg-shaped* A<wn$ short. 

 Fruitstalks nearly as long as the spikets. Nearly allied to the 

 F. duriuscula, Huds. When cultivated the spikets consist of 8 

 or 10 florets, and the awns are half the length of the blossom. 

 Calyx smaller valve but y the length of the other. 



Welch Fescue. On the highest hills about Llanberris, plenti- 

 fully. [On Crib y Ddeseil. Mr. Griffith.] P. July, Aug. 



(3) Panicle mostly pointing one way; awnless. 



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F. Leaves like bristles, rather long, upright: straw naked, tenuifo'lia. 



(Fl. ox.) Spikets rough. 



Leers 8. 4. i^r-Pluk.Z^.^-MonU ±~Anderson~Scheuch.6.6. i 



About 7 inches high. Panicle near 2 inches long. Spikets 

 4-flowered, roughish. Bloss. outer valve broader and shorter 

 than in any other of our species. Cal. unequal, the smaller 

 valve about | the length of the other. Stem and leaves slender 

 smooth. 



Gramen capillaceum locustellis pennatis y non aristatis. Ray Sy n. 



*10. This has been considered as an awnless variety of the F. 

 ovina, and it may be nothing more, but I think Dr. Sibthorpe 

 ^as done well to keep it separate at present, whatever may be 

 its place in consequence of further observations concerning it ; 

 but the want of awns, and the roughness of the spikets must, 

 tf permanent, be allowed a sufficient distinction. In the rough- 

 ness of the spikets it resembles the F. dumetorum, but that has 

 awns, and is full twice the size of the present plant. Drjr • \ 



pastures. Bullington Green, Oxfordsh. Sibthorpe. [Sent to 



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F. Panicle upright: spikets scarcely awned; the outer ela'tior, 



ones cylindrical. FL Stiec. 



Var. 1. Bog. Panicle doubly compound, at first drooping, 

 nearly upright when in flower : spikets egg-spear-shaped, acute, 

 awnless ; leaves flat. Curt. 



G«rt.~SchreL 2-Leers 8. 6~H. ox. viii. 2. 15-Scbeucb. 5. 18, 







