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the coast of Essex, as well as in Norfolk and Hants. Its stem varies from a 
foot to 6 feet high, and it bears in July its close purplish panicle. Its leaves 
_ are somewhat broader than those of the last species, of a bright green, and 
it has a creeping rootstock. Duval-Jouve regards this as a hybrid between 
the last-named and Agrostis alba. 
13. (15) SMALL-REED (Calamagréstis). 
1. Wood Small-reed (C. epigéjos).—Panicle upright ; spikelets crowded, 
1-flowered ; empty glumes awl-shaped, rough ; awn of outer flowering glume 
nearly as long as. the glume; hairs much longer than the awn. Perennial. 
This is a handsome, though rigid plant, with a round erect stem, sometimes 
five feet high ; and narrow acute leaves, hairy on the inner, and smooth on 
the outer sides. The green one-sided panicle is more or less tinged with 
brown, with silky hairs, and about half a foot long; flowering in July. This 
Reed-grass is not common, but grows in moist shady woods in many places 
throughout the kingdom. It is far too harsh a grass to be touched by 
cattle. 
2. Purple-flowered Small-reed (C. lanceoléta).—Panicle erect, loose ; 
empty glumes smooth; awn short, from the notch in the flowering glume ; 
hairs long. Perennial. This grass, with its slender stem three or four feet 
high, and graceful silky panicle, with an abundance of scattered spikelets, is 
—in England—far more common than the last, and in moist hedges often 
towers above the bushes, its glossy clusters of flowers being, in June, of a 
tich purple hue, much smaller, but much prettier in colour than that of the 
last species. It does not occur in Scotland or Ireland. 
3. Narrow Small-reed (C. stricta).—Panicle erect, close; empty glumes 
acute, rough on the keel ; flowering glume as long as the glumes, longer 
than the hairs; awn straight. Perennial. This reed is the smallest of the 
species, and has an upright stem two or three feet high ; bearing, in June, a 
close panicle of many spikelets, about three inches long, and tinged with 
purplish-blue colour. Its leaves are broad and rigid. It is a very rare plant, 
inhabiting bogs and marshes in Delamere Forest and Caithness. It is readily 
distinguished from the other species by its general appearance, and the 
colour of its flowering clusters. By some systematists it is separated from 
Calamagrostis, and called Deyetaia neglécta. 
14, (14) BENT-GRASS (Agréstis). 
1. Brown Bent-grass (4. cantna).—Branches of the panicle long, 
slender, spreading, when in full flower, and erect ; glumes unequal, rough at 
the keel; flowering glume single, toothed, awned from below the middle. 
Perennial. This is a very abundant Grass on boggy meadows, and one often 
gathered for its delicate beauty. Its glossy stem is one or two feet high, 
prostrate below ; and in June and July its airy clusters, formed of numerous 
small spikelets on thread-like branches, vary in tint, from pale yellowish- 
green, to every hue of purple. It generally grows about the moors in little 
patches, and it has slender, smooth leaves. 
2. Bristle-leaved Bent-grass (4. setdécea).—Panicle close, oblong ; 
branches and flower-stalks rough; glumes unequal; outer flowering glume 
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