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GRAMfNEiE 



flowering glumes with a slender, bent, dorsal awn. (Name from 

 the Greek dlopex, fox^ oura, tail.) 



I. A. myosuroides- (Black-grass Slender Foxtail). — Stem erect, 

 rough, I — 2 feet high ; leaves with a large, blunt ligule ; spike 2 — • 

 3 in. long, slender, flexuous, more pointed than in the other 

 species ; glumes acute, united to about the middle, nearly smooth. 

 — A troublesome weed in England. — Fl. April — November. 

 Annual 



ALOPECUKUS MYOSUROIDES 



(Slender Foxtail-grass). 



ALOfECt^RUS GENICULATUS 



(^Floating Foxtail). 



2. A. cequdlis (Orange-spiked Foxtail). — A glaucous plant; stem 

 ascending, bent at the nodes, i — 2 feet high ; leaf-sheaths rather 

 inflated ; ligule oblong ; spike 2 — 3 in. long, pale ; glumes united 

 below, ciliate ; anthers short, broad, at first white, then orange. — 

 Ditches in the midland and southern counties ; rare. — Fl. June — 

 September. Perennial. 



3. A. geniculdtus (Marsh or Floating Foxtail). — A closely allied, 

 not glaucous species ; leaf-sheaths cylindric ; spike i — 2 in. long, 

 blunt ; glumes connate, blunt, ciliate ; flowering glume with a 

 sub-basal awn, half as long again as the glume ; anthers linear, 



