33f) SUMMER FLOWERS. 



(308) AlopecilTUS. FOX-TAIL-GRASS. 

 * Outer glumes glabrous. 



A. agrestis : annual ; stem 1-2 feet high, erect, slightly 

 decumbent at the base ; leaves short, with long, scarcely loose 

 sheaths ; spike 2-3 inches long, thin, tapering ; two outer 

 glumes united to about the middle. Waste places, roadsides, 

 etc. Fl. May to September. 



** Outer glumes hairy on the Jceel. 



A. pratensis : stems erect, scarcely decumbent at the base, 

 1-2 feet high ; upper sheaths loose ; spike 2-3 inches long, 

 dense, obtuse, hairy ; outer glumes free or scarcely united at 

 the base. Meadows and pastures. Fl. May, June. 



A. geniculatus : stem procumbent at the base ; upper 

 sheaths loose ; spike 1-2 inches long, cylindrical ; outer 

 glumes united at the base. Moist meadows, marshy places. 

 Fl. June, July. Sometimes the stems thicken at the base 

 into a kind of bulb, and it is then called A. bulbosus. 



(309) LagurilS. H ARE 'S-TAIL- GRASS. 



Ii. ovatus : annual; stems erect, J 1 foot high; leaves 

 hoary with soft down, their sheaths rather swollen ; spikelets 

 1 -flowered, crowded in an ovoid or oblong, softly hairy head, 

 |-1 inch long. Maritime sands in the Channel Islands. Fl. 

 June. 



(310) Polypogon. BEARD-GRASS. 



P. monspeliensis : annual ; stems procumbent at the base, 

 rarely erect, 1-1 \ feet high; leaves flat, rather flaccid; pani- 

 cle contracted into a slightly branched spike, 2-3 inches long, 

 yellowish shining green, and thickly bearded with numerous 



