APPENDIX. loSr 



quently (hooting out a fingle branch from the 

 iowermoft joint. 



The leaves are plain, fmooLh, and ftriated, glau- 

 cous when young, but turning yellowifii in 

 decay, thofe on the flalk having inflated va- 

 gina. 



Each flalk and branch is terminated with a finele 

 clofely-inibricated fpike, from half an inch to 

 an inch in length, of an oval or fliort cylindri- 

 cal form, narrowed at the bafe. 



The calyx confifts of two equal, comprefs'd, acu- 

 minated valves, their points (landing afunder 

 in a forked pofition, and their carince or back 

 edges ciliated with v/hite hairs. 



Thefe valves are not truMated at the top, as in 

 other fpecies of this genus, but regularly lan- 

 ceolate ; which feems to be the reafon why Mr. 

 Htidfon placed this grafs under the genus of 

 Phalaris. Limhfus liowevsr has thought fit to 

 retain it amongft the Phlcums^ probably on 

 account of its habit and acuminated valves, 

 which (land open at top in a forked pofition. 



Each calyx contains a fingle flower, compofed of 

 two downy valves, and followed by a roundifh 

 Iced. 



^umila. AGROSTIS panicula mutica fecunda, culmis faf- 

 ciculatis ereftis. Syfi. nat, edit, 13. pag. ^^, 



Manti/s, 



