DACTYLIS GLOMERATA. 



ROUGH COCKSFOOT, 



Boots fibrous, rootstock perennial. Stems 2 to 

 3 feet, erect, stout, and smooth. Leaves broad, 

 keeled, and rough; sheath scabrid; ligule long. 

 Panicle secund, spreading below, close and pointed 

 above. Spikelets three- to five-flowered, laterally com- 

 pressed, and closely clustered at the end of the 

 branches. Empty glumes smaller than flowering 

 glumes, unequal, keeled, and hairy on upper part 

 of the keel, pointed at summit. Flowering glumes 

 with hairy keel, pointed and ending in a short awn. 

 Palea bifid at summit, and fringed at base. Flowers 

 June and July. Grows in pastures, woods, orchards, 

 and waste places throughout Europe, North Africa, 

 North India, and Siberia. 



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