50 CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEJOS. 



Aberdeenshire, Scotland; and near St. Ann's Wells, Nottingham, 

 although rare. The last locality is from the authority of Mr. J. Side- 

 botham. Also in Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Kent Surrey, Middlesex, 

 Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Oxford, Leicester, War- 

 wick, Worcester, Shropshire, Lincoln, York, Cumberland, Durham, 

 Northumberland, and Anglesea. Abroad in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, 

 Norway, and Lapland. 



Stem circular, upright, and somewhat rough, carrying four narrow, 

 acute, taper-pointed leaves, with inner surface and edges rough, but 

 smooth on the back. Sheaths smooth, striated, the uppermost one 

 extending beyond its leaf, and having at its apex a lengthy, lanceolate - 

 shaped, divided ligule. Joints smooth. Inflorescence brown, compound 

 panicled. Panicle upright, compact, four inches in length. Branches 

 and rachis rough, the branches in alternate clusters. Calyx composed 

 of two narrow, acute, equal-sized glumes, destitute of lateral ribs; 

 containing one awned floret, not so long as the glumes. Floret con- 

 sisting of two paleaa, the exterior one ovate-lanceolate, destitute of 

 lateral ribs, and ending in two bifid points; at the base a number of 

 long straight hairs, colourless, and equal in length to the calyx. Awn 

 long and slender, commencing at the centre of the palea, and rising 

 to the summit of the hairs. Inner palea acute, membranous, linear, and 

 considerably shorter. Length from three to five feet. Root perennial 

 and creeping. 

 , Flowers at the end of July, and seed ripens at the end of August. 



Cattle will seldom eat this Grass. 



Distinguished from C. slricta in the hairs and awn of 0. stricta 

 scarcely extending beyond the floret. 



The illustration is from a specimen gathered near St. Ann's Wells, 

 Nottingham. 



