CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEJOS. 49 



CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEJOS. 

 ROTH. LINDLEY. KOCH. HOOKER. PARNELL. 



PLATE XV. A. 



Arundo epigejos, SMITH. LINN^US. WILLDENOW. 



" " KNAPP. SCHRADER. EHRHART. ' 



" calamagrostis, HOOKER. LIGHTFOOT. HUDSON. 



Calamagrostis lanceolata, WITHERING, (not of ROTH.) 



The Wood Reed. 



Calamagrostis Palm Grass. Epigejos Upon The earth 

 (from the Greek).* 



CALAMAGROSTIS. Adanson. Of Calamagrostis there are three British species, 

 all growing in moist situations. In C. epigejos and C. stricla the panicle is 

 upright and close; in C. lanceolata it is loose. Spikelets laterally compressed, 

 Two almost equal-sized glumes. Two membranaceous glumellas. Name 

 derived from the Greek, signifying the Palm Grass, a very inappropriate 

 name. 



Calamagrostis epigejos is by no means a common Grass, growing 

 -I- in damp woods and shady ditches. 

 It is to be met with in Dalrymple Wood, Ayr; and in Argyle and 



* This should be spelt and pronounced Epigeios with the g hard. The 

 term is intended to characterize the species as one that grows on the land, 

 as distinguished from the sea or from watery places. Linnseus gives as its 

 habitat "Dry hills, banks, and corners of fields." Withering, Hudson, 

 Babington, and other botanists speak of "moist shady places, wet hedges," 

 etc. Two localities in which it was found near Nottingham, by Dr. Howitt 

 and Dr. Wilson, are dry. Doubtless it does grow in moist places, but differs 

 from the other Reed Grasses in not being limited to such places as they 

 are. Hence the propriety of the specific term "Epigeios." 



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