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AGROSTIS VULGARIS. 
WitHertnc. Hooker AnD ARNoTT. Parnewu. SMITH. 
Hurt. Retyan. Kwapr. Sincnuarr. ScorapER. Horrmann. LInpLey. 
GREVILLE. Kocgu. 
PLATE XVIII.—A. 
Agrostis canina, WITHERING. 
= pumila, Licutroot. Linnzxvs. 
ee ss WILLDENOW. EnHRHartT. 
xe tennis, SIBTHORP. 
ae capillaris, Aspot. Ror. 
ss polymorpha, Hopson: 
cc hispida, WILLDENOW. 
os stolonifera, Leers. Enruart. 
The Fine Bent Grass. 
Agrostis—A Field. Vulgaris—Common, 
A common English Grass, growing in dry pastures and on 
heaths. 
Of no agricultural value. 
Common in Ireland and Scotland, and is a native of France, 
Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, and North 
America. 
Root perennial, tufted, and creeping. Stem upright, circular, 
and polished, having five or six short, flat, rough, narrow, acute, 
dentate leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, the uppermost one 
slightly longer than its leaf, having an abrupt, blunt, membranous 
ligule at the apex. Joints smooth. Inflorescence compound 
panicled. Panicle upright, either brownish purple or light green. 
Branches spreading zig-zag, delicate, rough, proceeding from the 
