AGROSTIS VULGARIS. 



AGROSTIS VULGARIS. 



WITHERING. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. PARNELL. SMITH. 

 HULL. RELHAN. KNAPP. SINCLAIR. SCHRADER. HOFFMANN. LINDLEY. 



GREVILLE. KOCH. 



PLATE XVIII. A. 



Agrostis cantna, WITHERING. 



" pumila, LIGHTFOOT. LINNAEUS. 



" " WILLDENOW. EHRHART. 



" tennis, SIBTHORP. 



" capillaris, ABBOT. ROTH. 



" polymorpha, HUDSON. 



" hispida, WILLDENOW. 



" stolonifera. LEERS. EHRHART. 



The Fine Bent Grass. 

 Agrostis A Field. Vulgaris Common. 



A COMMON English Grass, growing in dry pastures and on heaths. 

 -LA. Of no agricultural value. 



Common in Ireland and Scotland, and is a native of France, Italy, 

 Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, and North America. 



Root perennial, tufted, and creeping. Stem upright, circular, and 

 polished, having five or six short, flat, rough, narrow, acute, dentate 

 leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, the uppermost one slightly longer 

 than its leaf, having an abrupt, blunt, membranous ligule at the apex. 

 Joints smooth. Inflorescence compound panicled. Panicle upright, 

 either brownish purple or light green. Branches spreading zigzag, 

 delicate, rough, proceeding from the rachis at equal distances in threes 

 or fours. Spikelets small, shining, numerous; of one awnless floret. 

 Calyx of two almost equal-sized narrow acute glumes, destitute of 

 lateral ribs. Floret of two unequal-sized palese; exterior one ovate, 



