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PHALARIS CANARIENSIS. 
Linnzvus. Smita. Hooker. Linney. Parnett. Kocu. 
GREVILLE. WILLDENOW. Knapp. Martyn. 
ScHraper. Lerers. Scuresper. Srycnarr. Sowersy. Huvpson. 
WITHERING. SIBrHoRP. 
PLATE VII.—A. 
The Cultivated Canary Grass. 
Phalaris—Shining, (from the Greek.) Canariensis—Canary Island. 
Puataris. Linneus.—Panicle spiked or spreading, with laterally com- 
pressed spikelets. Two glumes nearly equal in size, upright, membra- 
naceous. Glumellas two, awnless, hairy; outer palea without lateral 
ribs. Leaves broad and flat. Only two British species. 
Its name is derived from the Greek, in allusion to the polished 
appearance of its seeds. 
Tuts handsome Grass is not strictly a native of Great Britain, 
yet has now become naturalized in many parts of England and 
Scotland, probably owing to the extensive use of its seeds for | 
feeding Canaries and other small birds. 
It appears to prefer rich ground, and near Beeston it is 
seldom found except in gardens and orchards. 
Native of the Canary Islands. It has also become naturalized 
in America. 
Probably it is not of any agricultural value. 
Panicle globular, upright, with brief branches. Spikelets 
oval, imbricated, flat, handsomely marked with yellowish green 
and white stripes, having one awnless floret. Calyx of two 
equal-sized compressed glumes. Floret consisting of two palee, 
the outer one egg-shaped, acute, hairy, having two membranous 
lance-shaped acute scales at the base, of half the length of 
