202 FILICES. 



fibrous, producing leafy barren shoots. Steins erect, 1 2 ft. high, 

 leafy below. Spike 6 inches, sometimes 1 foot long, spikelets 

 distant, when growing in rich soil compound, or with the spikelet, 

 very closely set. Florets 3 10, with a large solitary glume as 

 the base. Glumellas usually awnless. 



Very common. Meadows, pastures, and waysides. (B) P. B. 6 7. 



*2. L. ITALICUM, A. Braun. Italian Rye-grass. Roots with 

 leafy barren shoots. Spikelets 6 14- flowered. Lowest glumella 

 with a long slender awn. 



Never found except near where it has been cultivated, as at Carmyle. 



3. L. TEMTJLENTUM, L. Darnel. Roots fibrous, without barren 

 shoots. Stems tufted. Le. flat, rough. Spike erect. Spikelets 

 of 4 5-awned florets. GL about the same length as the spikelets. 

 Glumellas short, swollen, with the tumid fruit, mostly awned. 

 Poisonous. 



Very rare. Cornfields. (B) A. 6 9. Waste corner of a field at Shettleston. 



CRYPTOGAMOUS OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. 



CLASS III, 



ACOTYLEDONS OK ACROGENS. 



Sub-Class l.-PILICES. 



Flowerless plants bearing seeds or spores, inclosed in spore 

 cases or capsules, arranged in clusters (sori), on the back of the 

 leaves or fronds ; sometimes on the margin or in the axil ; in 

 others radical or in terminal spikes. 



ORD. 89. POLYPODIACEJE. 



Capsules arranged in clusters on the back or edge of the frond, 

 surrounded by au elastic ring. Fronds circinate when young. 



