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TRITICUM CANINUM. 
Hupson. Situ. Hooker anp Arnott. Parwnett. 
Srncnatrr. Deakin. Kocn. Grevinie. Linptry. Bapineron. 
Kwapr. Scuraper. Host. Oxrper. Wirnertnc. Hvuiy. Renan. 
Aspot. Kunth. Macrerenr. 
PLATE LXV.—B. 
Triticum biflorum, Mirren. 
a alpinum, Dovy. 
Elymus caninus, Linnzvus. WI.LpEnow. 
ry = Leers. Enruart. 
Agropyrum caninum, Beavvats. Lriypwey. 
The Fibrous-rooted Wheat-Grass. 
Triticum—W heat. Caninum—Dog. 
Tue Fibrous-rooted Wheat-Grass, or Bearded Wheat-Grass, 
is a valuable and early Grass. 
Growing usually in damp shady places, yet thriving when 
cultivated in fields. 
Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Native of Siberia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, 
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and the 
United States. 
Stem slender, upright, circular, and polished, having four 
or five broad, lanceolate acute, dark green, shining leaves, 
with smooth striated sheaths, upper one extending beyond 
its leaf, and having a very brief blunt ligule at its apex 
Inflorescence spiked. Spike lengthy and delicate. Spikelets oval, 
sessile, placed in two rows on the zigzag rachis, and of four or 
