FESTUCA UNIGLUMIS. 149 



FESTUCA UNIGLUMIS. 



SOLANDER. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. KOCH. 



KUNTH. WITHERING. BABINGTON. 

 KNAPP. DICKSON. RALFS. MACREIGHT. DEAKIN. 



PLATE XLVIII. 



Vulpia uniglumis, LINDLEY. DUMORT. 



Lolium bromoides, HUDSON. WITHERING. HULL. 



Stipes membranacea, LINN^US. MANT. 



The Single- glumed Fescue Grass. 

 Festuca ........ ? Uniglumis Single-glumed. 



Grass, which has no agricultural merits, grows in arid sandy 

 J- situations, chiefly in the immediate neighbourhood of the sea. 



Found in Ireland and Anglesea. In Suffolk, Sussex, Essex, Dorset, 

 and Devon. Abroad in France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. 



Stem upright and slender, bearing three or four small, narrow, in- 

 volute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper sheath extending 

 considerably beyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflorescence racemed, 

 subsecund. Spikelets of two glumes and five or six florets. Glumes 

 exceedingly unequal; inner one long and narrow; exterior one almost 

 obsolete. Florets of two paleae; exterior one of basal floret of same 

 length as the large glume; five-ribbed, and ending in a lengthened 

 rough awn. Styles two. Filaments three, capillary; stigmas plumose; 

 anthers notched at either extremity. Root annual and fibrous. Length 

 from ten to fifteen inches. 



Flowers in June, and the seed becomes ripe in the middle of July. 



The illustration is from a specimen gathered at Southport, by Mr. 

 Joseph Sidebotham, of Manchester. 



