474 GR AMINES. [ALOPEOURIW. 



from Aberdeenshire, has a laxer panicle, more acute purplish empty glumes, 

 with an awn J-J of their length. 



** Empty glumes distinct or connate towards the base. 



3. A. praten'sis, L. ; stem erect, panicle slender cylindric obtuse, 

 keel of hairy acute empty glumes villously ciliate, awn twice as long as 

 the fl. glume. 



Meadows and pastures, N. to Shetland ; ascends to 2,000 ft. in N. England ; 

 Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-June. Perennial, stoloniferous. Stems 

 1-3 ft., erect or lowest internode inclined, smooth. Leaves scaberulous, 

 flat; sheath smooth, upper inflated, longer than its leaf; ligule large, 

 truncate. Panicle 1|-2| in., dense, soft, pale green ; branches very short, 

 with 3-6 spikelets. Empty glumes \ in., ovate-lanceolate, acute ; fl. glume 

 subacute, glabrous, ciliate, margins connate ^-\ of its length. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, N.W. India; introd. in America. An 

 excellent fodder. 



4. A. genicula'tus; L. ; stem decumbent below, panicle cylindric, 

 keel of hairy empty glumes ciliate. A. palus'tris, Syme. 



Wet meadows and ditches, ascending to nearly 2,000 ft. in the N. of England ; 

 fl. May-Aug. Perennial, rarely annual, glabrous. Stems 8-18 in., procum- 

 bent and rooting below. Leaves flat, scaberulous above and on the edges. 

 Panicle 1-1 in., slender, dense-fld. ; branches with 1 spikelet. Empty 

 glumes hairy and silky as in A. praten'sis, but smaller, ^ in.; anthers 

 purplish, linear. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, India ; 

 introd. in N. America. 



A. GENICULA'TUS proper ; not glaucous, sheaths cylindric, panicles cyliudric, 

 empty glumes connate at the base, fl. glume with a subbas.il awn not 

 twice its length. Common, N. to Shetland; Ireland; Channel Islands. 

 A. pro'mis, Mitt., is a prostrate form. 



Sub-sp. A. FUI/VUS, Sm. ; glaucous, sheaths rather inflated, panicle longer 

 paler, empty glumes smaller r \ in. connate below obtuse villously ciliate, 

 awn inserted near the middle of and a little longer than the fl. glume, 

 anthers small yellow. N. Wales, Chester and Norfolk to Devon and 

 Sussex. 



Sub-sp. A. BULBO'SUS, Gouan ; taller, more erect, not glaucous, lowest inter- 

 nodes tuberous, upper sheath inflated, panicle slender subacute, empty 

 glumes acute, free to the base, keel shortly ciliate, flowering glume longer 

 than the palea awn subbasal twice its length. Salt marshes, N. Wales, 

 York and Chester, to Kent and Cornwall. 



9. MIL'IUM, L. MILLET-GRASS. 



Spikelets minute, in an effuse panicle, 1-fld. ; rachilla produced. Empty 

 glumes 2, equalling the flowering, broad, subequal, obtuse, awnless, 3- 

 iierved. FL glume rigid, ovate, tumid, obscurely 3-nerved, awnless. Palea 

 2-nerved. Scales 2, fleshy, acute, toothed on one side. Ovary glabrous ; 

 styles short, stigmas feathery. Fruit terete, included in the hardened 

 glumes and palea. DISTRIB. Temp, and trop. ; species 5 or 6. ETYM. 

 Latin for Millet, misapplied. 



