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Häufig auf Wiesen, besonders trockneren Wiesen, grasigen Plätzen, Weiden, Äckern, 

 an Waldrändern und Wegrändern, auf Sandheiden. Blüht von Mai bis September. 



Dispositio varietatum. 



A. Folia glabrescentia vel parum pilosa. 



I. Parva usque elata; folia lanceolata vel anguste lanceolata, raro usque elliptica, 

 decumbentia vel erecta. Spica parva, globosa usque longior, anguste cylindracea. 



Sepala glabrescentia vel parum villosula a. var. communis. 



II. Elata; folia magna, erecta, latiora, elliptica vel late lanceolata, apice ipso con- 

 spicue anguste producta. Spica parum nitidula, junior anguste conica, dein cylin- 

 dracea. Sepala postica plerumque bene ad carinam villosula b. var. mediterranea. 



B. Folia varie villoso-pilosa usque tomentoso-villosa. 



I. Spica lata, capitata, ovata vel late ovata; folia pilis flavido-fulvis villosa usque 



copiose villosa e. var. macrocephala. 



II. Spica angustior, parva globosa usque breviter vel et longius cylindracea. 



a. Folia ubique at imprimis inferne albido-hirsuto-pubescentia; spica junior conica; 

 sepala ad carinam villosula c. var. maritima. 



b. Folia imprimis inferne ± villoso-pilosa usque villoso-tomentosa; bractea saepe 

 ± hirsuto-pilosa; sepala glabrescentia vel margine superiore et ad carinam 

 villosula d. var. dubia. 



c. Folia indumento flavido-fulvo velutino-villosa; sepala glabra f. var. velutina. 



a. var. communis Schlechtend. Fl. Berol. I. (1823) 109 (sens. latiore). — P. lanceolata 

 <x. typica Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oesterr. II. (1893) 1093; Beguinot in N. Giorn. Bot. Ital. N. S. 

 XVIII. (1911) 337. — P. ambigua Guss. Fl. Sic. Prodr. I. (1827) 185 [langgriffelige Form!]. 



a. subvar. genuina (Dietrich) Pilger nova comb. — P. lanceolata L. var. communis 

 Schlechtend. 1. c. sens. strict.; Domin 1. c. 21; Rouy, Fl. de France X. (1908) 129; Williams, 

 Prodr. Fl. Brit. (1909) 357. — P. lanceolata L. var. genuina Dietr. Fl. Boruss. III. (1835) 

 T. 209; Godr. in Grenier et Godr. Fl. de France II. (1850) 727. — P. lanceolata a. vulgaris 

 Gop 1. c. 215; Vuyck 1. c. 1405. — P. lanceolata L. var. vulgaris Neilr. Fl. Nieder-Oesterr. 

 (1859) 308. — P. lanceolata L. subspec. A. communis (Schlechtend.) Hayek, Fl. Steierm. 

 II. (1912) 326. — P. lanceolata L. <x. typica Haläcsy, Gonsp. Fl. Graec. III. (1904) 31. — 

 P. lanceolata L. <x. vulgaris Syme, Engl. Bot. VII. (1867) 170, sec. Williams 1. c. — Rhizoma 

 breve, satis validum. Folia satis numerosa rosulata, adscendentia vel erecta, sicca rigidule 

 membranacea usque papyracea, angustius usque late lanceolata, apice ipso obtusiuscula, 

 basin versus sensim petiolatim angustata, basi vaginatim anguste triquetro-dilatata, 10 

 ad 20 ( — 25) cm longa, 7 — 20 mm lata, pilis vel villis longioribus usque longis parce inspersa 

 vel glabrescentia, minute obtuse remote denticulata, nervis 5 supra anguste impressis 

 (in foliis siccis supra parum notatis), subtus bene anguste prominulis, in petiolo approxi- 

 matis bene prominentibus, lana basali elongata plerumque parca. Inflorescentiae in rosula 

 paucae vel usque circ. 10; spicae peduncülus erectus, fere rectus vel parum arcuatus vel 

 inferne valde arcuatus et tum rectus, satis tenuis, circ. 15 — 40( — 50) cm longus, parce 

 pilis albidis ± parum appressis inspersus, prominenter 4-angulatus et inter angulos sulcis 

 1 — 2 levibus, vel et 6 — 7-angulatus et inter angulos sulcis ± exaratis; spica densissima bre- 

 viter cylindracea vel satis anguste cylindracea, 1 — 4 cm longa. Bractea membranacea, late 

 vel rotundato-ovata, brevius caudata, circ. 4 — 5 mm longa vel imprimis ad flores inferiores 

 longe caudatim angustata, ad 7 mm longa, parum concava, margine saepe irregulariter 

 eroso-undulata, fere hyalina vel superne et in cauda ± brunnescens, carina ad flores in- 

 fimos inferne crassa, dein angusta et ad basin caudae desinente, saepe et nervulis nonnullis 

 brevibus lateralibus ad basin bracteae parum conspicuis, carina ad flores superiores angusta, 

 circ. ad basin caudae desinente. Sepala 3 — 3,5 mm longa, antica coalita, sepalum duplex 

 tenue late usque rotundato-obovatum, apice emarginatum (sepalis fere omnino connatis) 



