406 97. GRAMINE.E. 



often purplish. Fl. distant. j3. minor; st. 2 3 in. high, 

 spikelets mostly 1 -flowered. Ponds and ditches. /3. Wet sea- 

 sands. P. VI. VII. 



40. CYNOSURUS Linn. Dog's-tail-grass. 



1. C. cristatus (L.); raceme spikelike linear, fl. with a very 

 short awn. E. B. 316. P. 28. Spike unilateral, plane-com- 

 pressed. Spikelets closely placed. Bract pectinate. Pastures. 

 P. VIII. 



[2. C. echinatus (L.); raceme contracted close ovate, awns 

 about as long as the pales. E. B. 1333. P. 28 and 129. St, 

 erect, 1 2 feet high. Bract pectinate with long points. Sandy 

 places in Guernsey and Jersey. A. VII. ] 



41. DACTYLIS Linn. Cock's-foot-grass. 



1. D. glomerata (L.); pan.-branches with ovate clusters of 

 spikelets, st. erect, 1. linear flat with scabrous margins, roots ca> 

 spitose. E. B. 335. P. 29. A coarse grass. Pan.-branches 

 long, spreading or divaricate with fl., afterwards adpressed, di- 

 stant ; each bearing an ovate cluster of spikelets ; or wanting, 

 and the panicle of one cluster. Meadows. P. VI. VII. 



42. FESTUCA Linn. Fescue-grass. 



* Root-leaves very narrow. Ligule with round auricles. 

 Awn terminal. 



t Usually monandrous. Awn longer than the pale. Gl. very 

 unequal. VULPIA. 



1. F. uniglumis (Sol.) ; raceme 2-ranked secund close, lower 

 gl. very small, fl. compressed keeled. E. B. 1430. P. 112. 

 St. 6 12 in. high, erect, leafy nearly to the top. Raceme close. 

 Lower gl. usually scarcely distinguishable. Sandy sea-shores. 

 A. VI. E. I. 



2. F. sciuroides (Roth) ; st. mostly naked above, pan. erect- 

 patent short, lower branches often equalling % the panicle, upper 

 gl. equalling the lowest fl., fl. terete scabrous. F. bromoides Sm., 

 E. B. 1411. Slender, 6 12 in. high. L. linear, involute. 

 Walls and sandy places. A. ? VI. VII. 



3. F. myurus (L.) ; st. usually leafy to the arcuate long narrow 

 pan., lower branches short, upper gl. falling short of the lowest 

 fl., fl. terete scabrous. E. B. 1412. F. pseudo-myurus Soy.-Will. 

 Known from the preceding, to which it is very closely allied, 



