GLUMACE^ 411 



Britten and Holland cite the following names for 

 this plant, Bull Faces, Cock Foot, Cock's Foot, 

 Cock's-Foot Grass, Deco-grass, Dog Foot, Fox's 

 Foot, Cow's Grass, Rough Grass, Sticky Grass, 

 Hard Grass, Orchard Grass. 



Dactylis glomerata. — The illustration {Fig. 119) 

 shows the rigid panicle, with few lower branches. In 

 flower these are seen to be more expanded. The lower 

 flowers have anthers projecti^tg. 



Mat-Grass (Nardns strict a). 



Though this plant, placed in the Genus Nardus, — 

 a name applied by Theophrastus, which signifies a 

 plant from the flower of which a sweet fragrant oil 

 was obtained — is so-called, it is quite inappropriate. 

 The second Latin name refers to the rigid character 

 of the panicle and leaves. Mat-grass also indicates 

 the matted habit. 



In certain habitats this grass is not uncommon in 

 Britain, but more confined to North Britain, and the 

 west of England, extending as far north as the 

 Shetlands. It occurs at over 3000 ft. in the High- 

 lands. It is found in Ireland and the Channel 

 Islands. 



Moors, heaths, dry hilly pastures form the habitat 

 of this grass. It is found on sandy soil on heaths, 

 on wet heaths, on Calluna heaths, on moist humous 

 soils, on siliceous soils in the sessile oakwood, in 

 siliceous grass-land, forming in itself an association 

 of grass-land, with Purple Moor-grass on upland 



