40 GASTRIDIUH LENDIGERUM. 



It has not been found either in Scotland or Ireland. 



Of no use as an agricultural Grass. 



Root annual and fibrous, having slender branching fibres. Stem 

 upright, circular, polished; carrying four or five flat, acute, rough 

 leaves, with usually smooth sheaths, the upper one being longer than 

 its leaf. Joints mostly three in number, Ligule conspicuous, pointed, 

 and broad. Inflorescence compound panicled, compact; pale green in 

 colour; branches rough. Rachis circular and smooth. Spikelets 

 upright, numerous, composed of two unequal-sized acute glumes, that 

 are tumid at the base; deeply dentate at the upper portion, and with 

 green keels, and one floret, two thirds less in length than the glumes, 

 and consisting of two palese, the exterior one being five-ribbed, with 

 the summit jagged ; inner paleae somewhat shorter, with smooth lateral 

 ribs. Awn rough, yet slender, twice the length of the palese. Styles 

 brief, distant, and two in number. Stigmas feathery. Filaments 

 three, slender. Anthers notched at either extremity. Scales acute. 



Gastridium lendigerum does not flower till August, nor ripen its seeds 

 before the end of September. 



The specimen illustrated was gathered on St. Vincent Rocks, Bristol, 

 by Mr. Joseph Sidebotham, of Manchester. 



