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Ti, PALeOM, 
Panicle dense, cylindrical ; flowering glume enclosing 
the fruit; empty glumes often truncate. 
P. pratense, L., Timothy Grass; very common. P. 
alpinum, L. (including commutatum, Gaud.); panicle 
ovoid, upper leaf-sheath inflated; alpine pastures, fre- 
quent. P. Micheli, All.; glumes lanceolate, glabrous, 
with long stiff hairs on the keel; alpine pastures. /P. 
asperum, Jacq.; glumes wedge-shaped, the keel rough- 
tubercular; waste ground, rare. P. Lehmert, Wib.; 
glumes linear-oblong, spotted-tubercular ; waste ground. 
12. MIBORA, Adans. 
Spikelets compressed dorsally, in a simple sub-disti- 
chous spike; styles very long. Not alpine. 
M. minima, Desv. (Knappia agrostidea, Sm.); densely 
czespitose, stems very slender, I-3 in.; wet sandy places, 
rare. 
13. AGROSTIS, L. 
Panicle loose, with whorled branches; spikelets I- 
flowered ; flowering glume small, hyaline. 
A. vulgaris, With., Bent Grass; everywhere. A. 
canina, L..; leaves narrower; wet places. A. alba, L.; 
ligule long, acute; common. A. rupestrzs, All. ; branches 
of panicle glabrous, spikelets small; rocky; alpine, fre- 
quent. <A. alpina, Scop.; spikelets smaller, panicle oval, 
branches rough; rocky; alpine, common. A. Schletchert, 
Jord.; a larger plant, panicle lanceolate in outline, branches 
rough; Switzerland, Jura, rare. A. Spzca- Vent, L. (Apera 
