TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Triticum. 173 



Var. 2. With a leafy spike. Rat. 



Ger. 23. 2. C. B. [5 .-Park. 1277 '. 3 ; — this seems only a dis- 

 eased plant, possibly from the puncture of insects. 



Sea Wheat-grass. Rush Wheat. Seashore, common. [Beach 

 at Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward.] P. June, July. 



T. Calyx 4-floweredj awl-shaped, tapering to a point: re'pens. 

 [ leaves flat. 



Schreb. 26. 



Var. 2. Calyx 2 to j-flowered; awnless. — Salt banks at 

 Weymouth. 



Schreb. 26. IIL-Leers 12. 3-i/. ox. viii. row 3. 8~Mont. 25. 



Var. 3. Calyx 5 to 8-flowered ; awns not a line long. 



Schreb. 26. II. and 2 and 2-Mont. 26-Park. 1 173. 2-Barr. 



906. 2-C. B. pr. 17. \-th. 131-Gmel. 1. 21-Scheuch. 1. 

 1. A. C. 1. 



Var. 4. Calyx 4 to 6-flowered ; awns 2 to 4 lines long. St. 



FL dan. 7±$-Schreb. 26. 5 and 7-Scheuch. 1. 1. C. 2. 



Var. 5. Leaves sea green, stiff, acute. Ray. Calyx from 3 

 to 8-flowered j florets pointed. Huds. Sea coast. 



Dogs grass, Squitch-grass, Couch-grass, Quitch-grass, Couch 

 Wheat. Very common. P. June — Aug.* 



T. Calyx pointed, mostly 4 -flowered: awns longer than cani'num. 



the blossom : spikets upright. 



Leers 12. 4. II.-H. ox. viii. 1. row 3. 2-Buxb. iv. 50. 



Bloss. inner <val<ve spear-shaped, just sensibly longer than the 

 °uter ; outer bare of hairs, edges at the point membranaceous. 

 The above circumstances distinguish itfrom the Festuca sylvatrca, , 



which it very much resembles in its general appearance. St. 

 Triticum caninum. Linn. sd. pl.ed. I. Huds. Schreb. spicileev 



* It is a most troublesome weed in arable lands, and can only be de- 

 proved by fallowing in a dry summer. At Naples the roots are collected 

 m large quantities, and sold in the market to feed horses; they have a 

 sweet taste, something approaching to that of liquorice; when dried 



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jaundice. Cattle are frequently found to have schirrous livers in the 

 Jointer, and they soon get cured when turned out to grass in the spring. 

 Dogs eat the leaves to excite vomiting. — Horses eat them when young, 

 but leave them when fully grown. Mr. Southwell. Cows, Sheep, and 

 ^oats eat them. Mr. Pitt observes, that this is the most common kind of 

 Quitch in gardens, but that the Squitch so troublesome In arable lands is 

 ♦ormed by several species of Agrostis, Holcus moll'n % and A vena elstior. 

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