

TRIANDRIA, DIGYNTA. Stipa. 



E. bot. 730. 



Spikets with their flat sides turned towards the straw, Awnx 



163 



INN, 



terminating. Leaves flat, I 



Not uncommon in Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, and Kent. Dr. 

 Smith. . 



« 



STI'PA. Calyx 2-valved; Uflowered: bl 



base 



g 



jointed at the 



S. Awn 



s w 



oolly. 



penna'ta. 



H. ox. viii. 7. row. 3. Q-Barr. 4c6-C. B. th. 7\-Munt. 

 617-CIus. ii. 221. Z~Ger. em. 42. 6.-J. B. ii. 512. 2- 

 Mont. 68-Scheuch. 3. 13. JS. (Hunting 173, ^W. Mr. 



Woodward.) 





r 



Awns from 6 to 12 inches long, or more; set with very fine, 

 white, soft, pellucid, diverging hairs. This very beautiful and 



remarkable feature at once distinguishes it from all our other 

 grasses. 



Downy Feather-grass. Mountains, 

 moreland. Mr. Alderson.] 



[Near Kendal, West- 



P. July, Aug. 



In Ray's Syn. p. 393, this elegant grass is said to have been 

 found by Dr. Richardson and Thomas Lawson, on the limestone 

 rocks hanging over a little valley called Longsleadale, about 6 

 niiles N. of Kendal in Westmoreland. Hudson gives no other 

 placeof growth, but in the 2d ed. of the Bot. Arr. Mr. Aider- 

 son, is said to have found it near Kendal ; but this I am now in- 

 formed is a mistake, and Mr. Gough who lives at Kendal, tells 

 me he has never found it, nor has heard of any person that has, 

 except those just mentioned, there is therefore reason to fear that 

 it may be exterminated. I have only seen garden specimens. 



P.July— Aug. 



AVE'NA. Calyx 2-valved ; many-flowered i awn 



from the back of the blossom, twisted. 



A. Panicled: calyx 2-flowered: male floret awned; her- ela'tior. 



maphrodite floret sometimes awnless. 



Gram. fasc.-S 'cbreb. \~Curt. 1.Q1-& bot. 313-//. ox. viii. 

 7. 3$~Park. 11/6. l-C. B. th. 18-J. B. ii. 456-Ger. 

 em. 23- FI. dan. \63-Lrers 4. A-Scheuch. 4. 27 and 28. 



Root bulbous, sometimes a double pear-shaped bulb, one above 

 Jhc other. Straw about 5 feet high : knots woolly. Leaves not 



hair J r » Blou. hairy at the base. The structure of the blossom 



m2 



