

166 '■"' TRIANDRTA. DIGYNIA. Lagurus. 



Meadow Oat. Heaths and high chalkey lands* [Norfolk, 

 very frequent. Mr. Woodward. — King's Park, Edinburgh, 



Dr. Smith.] 



P. July- 



strigo'sa. A. Panicle oblong, compact, pointing one way: florets 



in pairs, with 2 awns at the cnd^ and a jointed awn 



N 



on the back. Schreber. 



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Straw and leaves naked. Retz. Calyx as long as thespiket. 

 Florets smooth, the terminating awns short, fine, red, but white 

 at the end. Aivnirom the back, twice the length of the blossom. 

 Not described by any writer. Schreb. spicileg. 



Amongst oats. Specimen in my Herbarium found in the North 

 of England, but I know not exactly where. A* 



LAGU'RUS. Col. 2-valved, awn woolly: bloss. 



outer petal with 2 awns at the end, and a 

 twisted awn at the back. 



ova'tus. L. Spike egg-shaped^ awned, 



Dicks, h. s.-Schreb. 12. 3-Barr. m> \\6~Scheucb. 2. 4. B, 

 C.-C. B. th. 56. 2. 



From 12 to 18 inches high. Straw smooth. Leaves and 

 sheaths soft and woolly. Spike l| inch long, 1 inch broad near 

 the base. 



This is a native of the more southern parts of Europe, but is 

 inserted here on the authority of Mr. Dickson's Herbarium, where 

 it is given as growing in the island of Guernsey. A. 



ARUNDO. Ceil. 2-valved: Moss, awnless, sur- 

 rounded with down at the base. 



phragmi'tes.A. Calyx 5 -flowered : panicle spreading. 



E. hot. 401.-//. ox. viii. 8. I-ZW. 602-Lob. obs. 28. \-Ger. 

 em.S6. \-Park. 1209. \~J. B.ii. ^8.5. 1-C. B.thM^ 

 Trag. 6j i. 2-Leers 7* l-Mont. Arundo B. E.-Scheuch. 

 3. 14. D. 



Florets 4 and 5. smooth, but surrounded at the base with 

 iewn about the length of the florets, which rises from the spike- 

 stalk, and not from the base of the blossom. (Scheuch.) as erro- 

 neously figured by Leers, (St.) so that in fact the downy fibres 

 are on the outside of the calyx. 



Common Reed. Rivers, lakes ditches ; very common. P. July 





* The panicles are used by the country people in Sweden to dye 



woollen green. The reeds arc much more durable than straw Tor thatch- 

 ing- 



