DACTYLIS GLOMERATA. 



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DACTYLIS GLOMERATA. 



LINNAEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. J. E. SMITH. GREVILLE. MACREIGHT. 



KUNTH. RALFS. WITHERING. PARNELL. LINDLEY. 

 BABINGTON. REICHENBACH. DEAKIN. SINCLAIR. WILLDENOW. 



RELHAN. MARTYN. KNAPP. SCHRADER. 

 SCHREBER. HOST. LEERS. OEDER. SlBTHORP. HUDSON. 



PLATE XLI. B. 



Bromus glomeratus, 

 Gramen asperum, 



SCOPOLI. 

 BAUHIN. RAY. 



The Rough Cock! s-foot Grass. 

 Dactylis A finger. Glomerata In heaps. 



DACTYLIS. Linncsus. The Cock's-foot Grass. There is only a solitary 

 British species. It is abundant everywhere. Name derived from the Greek. 



rTlHIS very common species is to be found everywhere. It is a 

 -L rough harsh Grass, not liked by cattle, and where it predominates 

 in a field, the produce, although increased in bulk, is rendered inferior 

 in quality. 



Native of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, 

 Denmark, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Eussia, North Africa, 

 and North America, growing to an altitude of one thousand feet above 

 the sea. 



Stem upright, circular, striated, and very rough, bearing five or six 

 linear, flat, acute, widely- spread ing, very rough (edges minutely toothed) 

 leaves, with rough striated sheaths. Joints smooth and polished. In- 

 florescence compound-panicled. Panicle upright, tufted, and dense. 

 Rachis and branches harsh. Spikelets crowded, unilateral, mostly of 

 three florets. Calyx of two unequal glumes; hirsute. Florets of two 

 paleas; exterior one of basal floret longer than the calyx; five-ribbed. 



