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TRITICUM REPENS. 
Smirno. Hooxrer anp ArNoTT. Parnety. SINCLAIR. 
Deakin. Kocn. Linptry. Grevitte. Basinaton. WILLDENOW. 
Kware. Scoraver. Host. Lerrs. Scureser. Enrnart. Hupson. 
Wirnertnc. Hupp. Retuan. SriptHorp. Apsot. Marryn. 
Kunth. Macrerenr. 
PLATE LXV.-——A. 
Triticum littorale, Host. 
“ junceum, RELHAN. 
Agropyrum repens, Beauvais. Lrinpiey. 
Elymus arenarius, Hupson. 
The Creeping Wheat-Grass, or Couch Grass. 
Triticum—W heat. Repens—Creeping. 
One of the most troublesome weeds that the farmer has to 
encounter, being difficult to eradicate from the soil, having 
long creeping roots, which branch out in every direction. 
It is common everywhere in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Also a native of Iceland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Switzer- 
land, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and the United 
States; yet not found above the altitude of six hundred feet. 
Stem upright, circular, smooth, and striated, carrying five 
or six flat acute leaves with smooth striated sheaths; upper 
one shorter than its leaf, and having a very brief blunt 
ligule at its apex. Inflorescence spiked. Spike upright; spike- 
lets oval, of four or five awnless florets, and placed alternately 
on the zigzag rachis in rows. Calyx consisting of two equal, 
acute glumes. Florets of two palew, exterior one of basal 
floret five-ribbed, harsh, and acute. Inner palea minutely 
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