338 Dr. Smith's Account of several Plants, 



Agrostia aruncUnacea in its flowers, not to mention the sniallncss 

 of its leaves." 



Jn fact, this plant is next akin to Agrostis aruncUnacea, and like 

 that is surel}' an Artindo, according to Linnaius's original deter- 

 mination in the Flora Lapjjonica. They both belong indeed to 

 the genus which some have separated from Arundo, by the bad 

 name of Calamagrostis, distinguished by having only 1 floret in 

 each calyx, as do likewise Arundo Calamagrostis and Agrostis 

 Calamagrostis of Linnaeus. It seems to me that they may all very 

 naturally be referred to Artindo. 



Arundo neglecta is by far the smallest British species of its ge- 

 nus, being scarcely 2 feet high. It has something of the habit of 

 A. Calamagrostis, but differs from that, as well as from all the 

 species just mentioned, in having the glumes of the ca\yx simply 

 acute, without any elongated point. The corolla moreover is as 

 long as the calyx ; its glumes abrupt and jagged, the larger bear- 

 ing a short dorsal awn, scarcely projecting beyond the calyx, and 

 not, like that of Agrostis arundinacca, twice as long. The root is 

 creeping. Stem simple, with 2 joints, smooth, as are also the 

 sheaths. The leaves are narrow, acute, rough on the upper 

 surface and edge. Stipula very short, abrupt and entire. Panicle 

 of a purplish or bronze-coloured brown. 



It must be confessed that the first grass, described in the pre- 

 sent paper, comes very near these just referred to Arundo, in the 

 generic character founded on the hairs at the base of the corolla. 

 But the hairs of Aira hevis-ata form a tuft at the base of the 

 outer glume only, and, from the analogy of Aira casyitosa, should 

 seem rather to belong to the racliis than to the glume itself, how- 

 ever closely approximated to the latter. They do not, as in 

 ylrimdo, grow out of, and entirely encompass, both glumes of the 

 corolla. 



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