FESTUCA GIGANTEA. U7 



FESTUCA GIGANTEA. 



VILLARS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. KOCH. LINDLEY. BABINGTON. 



KUNTH. MACREIGHT. 



PLATE XL VII. 



Bromus giganteus, LINN^US. HOOKER. WILLDENOW. 



" HUDSON. CURTIS. KNAPP. 



" SCHRADER. SCHREBER. LlNDLEY. 



" " DEAKIN. RALFS. ABBOT. 



" " SIBTHORP. HOST. LEERS. 



" " EHRHART. WEIGEL. WITHERING. 



Bucetum giganteum, PARNELL. 



Festuca triflora, SMITH. 



Bromus triflorus, LINN^US. WILLDENOW. OEDER. 



The Tall Bearded Fescue Grass. 

 Festuca ? Gigantea Gigantic. 



(~*\ ROWING in damp shady situations, and of but little agricultural 

 VJT value, as although, there is an abundant produce, it is of but little 

 nourishment for cattle. 



Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Found also in France, 

 Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. 



Stem upright, circular, smooth, and striated, bearing five or six 

 broad, lanceolate, flat, rough leaves, with striated sheaths; upper one 

 longer than its leaf, and having at its apex a brief decurrent ligule. 

 Joints five. Inflorescence simple or compound panicled, the lower ones 

 being branched. Panicle large, loose, and leaning to one side. Spike- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate, mostly of five awned florets. Calyx of two unequal, 

 acute, three-ribbed glumes. Florets of two equal palese; exterior one 

 of basal floret longer than the calyx, and five-ribbed; the inner one 



