Festuca.] GRAMINE;E. 309 



elongated, contracted; florets shorter than the awn, monan- 

 drous ; culm leafy in its upper part. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 49. E. 

 Fl. v. i. p. 143. E. Bot. t. 1412. 



Walls and barren places. Near Cork ; Mr. J. Drwnmond. County 

 of Derry ; Mr. D. Moore. Near Belfast ; Mr. Templeton. FL 

 June. . Much resembling 1 the last, but taller. One foot or more 

 high. Leaves rather shorter, their sheaths longer. Panicle often 

 four to five inches long. Calyx-valves and florets narrow, rather more 

 scabrous than in F. bromoides ; awns longer. 



6. F. uniglumis, Soland. Single-glumed Fescue-grass. Pa- 

 nicle a simple, erect, 2-ranked, subsecund raceme ; one valve 

 of the calyx obsolete. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 50. E. FL v. i.p. 143. 

 E. Bot. t. 1430. Stipa membranacea, Linn. ? Sm. 



Portmarnock sand-hills. Fl. June. 0. Varying in size from three 

 to four inches high in my Portmarnock specimens. This plant is re- 

 markable for the suppression of one of the valves of its calyx, by which 

 the species is at once known. 



7. F. calamaria, Sm. Peed Fescue-grass. Panicle sub- 

 secund, much branched, spreading, nearly erect ; spikelets 

 oblong, avvnless, 3 5-flowered; leaves linear-lanceolate. Br. 

 FL ed. 3. p. 50. E. Fl. v. i.p. 145. E. Bot. t. WQ5.Schedo- 

 norus sylvaticus, JBeauv. Lindl. 



Mountain glens and woods. Dargle, Powerscourt Waterfall ; Wood- 

 stock, County of Kilkenny. Colin-Glen near Belfast, and Ness-Glen, 

 County of Derry ; Mr. Templeton and Mr. D. Moore. Fl. July. 

 1. Two to three feet high, with large and broad leaves. Calyx- 

 valves narrow, linear-lanceolate, very unequal, smaller one single- 

 nerved, larger with three nerves. Florets rather distant upon the 

 rachis. Ext. valve of corolla scabrous, lanceolate-acuminate. 



8. F. loliacea, Huds. Spiked Fescue-grass. Raceme spiked, 

 distichous; spikelets linear-oblong, nearly sessile, remote; 

 florets cylindrical, awnless, outer valve of corolla obtuse. Br. 

 FL ed. 3. p. 50. E. FL v. i. p. 146. E. Bot. t. ISZLScJtedo- 

 norus, Dumort. Lindl. 



Moist meadows and pastures, not unfrequent. FL June, July. %. 

 Two feet high. Leaves few, short, linear, acute. Racemes two to five 

 inches long ; rachis flexuose. Spikelets nearly sessile, especially the 

 upper ones, five to six-flowered. Calyx-valves unequal, lanceolate, 

 acute, 7-ribbed. Outer valves of the corolla ovato-lanceolate, nerved, 

 diaphanous at the apex and obtuse, slightly scabrous only on the 

 nerves. 



9. F. pratensis, Huds. Meadow Fescue-grass. Panicle 

 patent, branched; spikelets linear, many-flowered; florets cy- 

 lindrical, awnless, outer valve of corolla acute ; leaves linear; 

 root fibrous. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p, 50. E. Fl. v. i. p. 147. E. Bot. 

 t. 1592. iSchedonorus, JBeauv. Lindl. 



Moist meadows and pastures, common. Fl. June, July. If. One 

 to two feet high. Distinguished at first sight from the preceding by 

 its panicled (not spiked) raceme ; also by the florets, which, though 



