238 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



S. hemipoa Part. Another stiff annual. Panicle with rough or scabrous 

 branches, naked in lower half without axillary spikelets. Spikelets erect, spread- 

 ing, the lateral ones subsessile. Ligule oblong, laciated. 



Sands near the sea, as e.g. the Plage de Giens, uncommon. May-June. 



S. figida Lk. = Poa figida L. Panicle rigid, compressed. Spikelets in 

 2 rows, adpressed, linear, 5-11 flowered. Pale rather obtuse, with a minute 

 point. Root fibrous. Plant annual, 3-9 in. 



Old walls and sandy places. May-July. 



S. loliacea Woods. Spike simple or somewhat branched at base, almost 

 linear. Spikelets in 2 rows, erect, 8-12 flowered. Fertile glume subobtuse. 

 Annual, 3-9 in. high. 



Sands, walls, and rocks by the sea. May-June. 



S. dura P. Beauv. is a rare species growing between Hyeres and Toulon and 

 on the Champs de Mars at Draguignon. 



DACTYLIS L. COCK'S-FOOT. 



Glumes unequal, herbaceous, mucronate ; lower smaller. Fertile glume 

 compressed, keeled, 5-veined ; dorsal vein fringed and excurrent just below the tip. 

 Spiklets crowded, subsecund, 3-4 flowered. Nut free. 



D. glotnerata L. Clustered Cock's-foot. Branches distant, naked at 

 base. Spikelets crowded, 3-6 flowered. Leaves keeled. 

 Meadows, etc. Common. April-July. 



Var. hispanica Roth. Panicle almost crowded into a small single head. 

 Spikelets 3-flowered. A small stiff form usually growing on rocky places near 

 the sea. Uncommon. 



D. Httoralis Willd. = Poa littoralis Parl. A stoloniferous plant with 

 creeping and often rooting stems and glaucous leaves. Ligule furnished with a 

 crown of hairs. Panicle spike-like. Spikelets 5-11 flowered. 



Grassy places near the sea, rather rare. May-July. 



CYNOSURUS L. DOG'S-TAIL GRASS. 



Glumes nearly equal, scarious, much keeled. Spikelets dimorphous. Fertile 

 glume rounded on the back with a terminal bristle. Each spikelet with a comb- 

 like bract at its base. Panicle spike-like, i-sided. Nut closely coated with the 

 pales. 



C. echinatus L. Raceme contracted, close, ovate, but one-sided; awns 

 about as long as pales. Bract comb-like with long points. Stem erect, 1-2 ft. 

 high. Annual. 



Sandy fields and dry hill-sides, common. April-June. 



C. cristatus L., C. elegans Desf., and C. aureus L. also occur. C. 

 aureus L. = Lamarckia aurea Mcench, is a pretty somewhat golden grass, 

 with glumes remote from lower floret, and pale of neutral floret very blunt. It 

 is occasionally seen in stony places and on roads near the towns as at Villefranche. 

 April-June. 



VULP1A Gmel. 



Spikelets spreading like a fan, with distant flowers. Glumes very unequal, 

 long awned ; lower one absent or at least half the length of the upper. Plants 

 nearly always annual, sometimes hairy. Allied to Festuca. The following 

 occur: V. uniglumis Dum., V. ciliata Lk., V. Myuros Gmel., V. 

 sciuroides Gmel., V. ligustica Lk., V. sicula Lk. (very rare, near 

 Hyeres, Toulon, and Frejus), and V. Michelii Rchb. (near Menton and Golfe 

 Jouan). 



FESTUCA L. FESCUE. 



Glumes unequal, herbaceous, many flowered. Fertile glume rounded on 

 the back, very acute, or with the dorsal vein excurrent like a short awn. 



