HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 61 



FESTUCA (juadridentata, per. four-toothed, nat. S. Ame- 

 rica. 

 dasifantha, per. nat. at the confines of perpetual snow on 



Mount Cotopaxi. 

 phalaroides, per. phalaris-like, nat. France. 

 grandijlora, per. great-flowered, nat. CaroHna. 

 jlahellata, per. waving, nat. Straits of Magellan. 

 arenaria, per. sand, nat. Straits of Magellan. 

 capillifolia, per. fine-leaved, nat. fissures of rocks near 



Moxente. 

 montana, per. mountain, nat. Mount Pisano. 

 Jallax, per. uncertain, nat. about Paris. 

 compacta, per. compact, nat. Aleppo. 

 glomerata, per. glomerate, nat. Aleppo. 



bracteata, per. bracteated, nat. ? Cult, in gardens. 



patula, per. spreading, nat. Barbary. 

 obtusa, per. obtuse, nat. America. 

 latifolia, per. broad-leaved. 

 quadridens, per. four-toothed, nat. America. 

 pulchella, per. fair. nat. Germ. 

 nutans, per. nodding, panicled, nat. Germ. 

 aurata, per. pale yellow, nat. Switzerland. 

 nigrescens, per. blackish, nat. Switzerland. 

 poceformis, jjer. meadow-grass-like, nat. France and Swit- 

 zerland. 

 America/ia,per. American, nat. near the river St. Lawrence. 

 pumila, per. dwarf, nat. Europe. 

 nitida, per. shining, nat. Alps. 

 littoralis, per. sand, nat. Van Diemen. 

 spicata, Pursh, per.? spiked, nat. Amer. watery places. 

 tenella, Pursh, ami. eight or nine-flowered, nat. America. 

 Bonariensis, arm. Buenos Ayres, nat. S. America. 

 t7'iJlora, ami. three-flowered. 

 BROMUS. Brome-grass. Generic character : cali/x two- 

 valved, many-flowered, valves ovate-oblong : corolla 

 two-valved, valves spear-shaped ; exterior valve concave, 

 obtuse, bifid, putting out a straight awn below the top 

 or apex ; seed oblong, covered. 

 mollis, ami. soft armual brome-grass, indig. 



