APPENDIX. ioS5 



creafed in number, but deftitute of ccroUa and 

 ftamina, and confequently quite barren. 

 The ff.cttU were elegandy imbricated, and 

 ftrongly mimick'd thofe of the BRIZA eragro- 

 Jlis. Lin. 



glabra. FESTUCA panicula ramofa erefla coarftata, 

 fpiculis fubulatis trlPioris ariftatis glabris. — 

 Novafpecies. (Fig. nulla.) 



Smooth Fefcue-grafs. Ar.glis. 



Voundd.tArdhigland'mGdlG'-LL^ry. n. VIL 



This {talk reclines a litde at the baie, but after- 

 wards grows erecl, a foot high, and is quite 

 fmooth. 



The leaves are narrow, linear, comprefs'd, and 

 fmooth in every part ; the radical ont^ from fix 

 to ten in numbef, fome fev/ of them reaching 

 to the bafe of the panicle, the ilalk ones but 

 two, the uppermoil a little higher than the pa- 

 nicle, and both furrounding the ftalk with long 

 fmooth vaginae. 



The panicle is about three inches long, ere6t, 

 branched, and contracled. Tiic branches are 

 alternate and (lender, (the lower ones bifid or 

 once divided) bearing each about fivefpicuU. 



ThQfpicuU are of a narrow fubulate form, quite 

 fmooth, and contain each threj fiov/ers, the up- 

 per ones often two only. 



The 



