FESTUCA STLVATICA. 



FESTUCA SYLVATICA. 



VILLARS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SCHRADER. HOST. BABINGTON. 

 KUNZE. MACREIGHT. 



PLATE XLIX. 



Poa sylvattca, POLLICH. PARNELL. 



" trinevata, EHRHART. SCHRADER. WILLDENOW. 



" " OEDER. 



Festuca calamaria, SMITH. HOOKER. KNAPP. WADE. 



Schedonorus sylvaticus, LINDLEY. 



The Reed Fescue Grass. 

 Festuca ? Sylvatica The wood. 



A SOMEWHAT rare Grass, of which cattle are extremely fond. 

 --*- Found in damp woods. In England procured in Westmoreland, 

 Worcester, and Sussex; occasionally in Scotland and Ireland. 



Found in France and Germany. 



Stem somewhat harsh, circular, slender, and erect; carrying three 

 or four broad, flat, rough, ribbed, pale green leaves, with rough 

 striated sheaths; upper one extending beyond its leaf, and having at 

 its apex an obtuse membranous ligule; the other sheaths shorter than 

 their leaves. Joints four, the upper two naked. Inflorescence com- 

 pound-panicled. Panicle spreading, in some degree pendulous. Branches 

 slender, and situated in pairs on the rachis. Spikelets many, small, 

 of three awnless florets. Calyx of two narrow, acute, membranous 

 glumes, destitute of lateral ribs. Florets of two equal-sized paleas, 

 exterior one of basal floret rough, acute, three-ribbed, the dorsal rib 

 serrated. Eoot creeping, tufted, and perennial. Length from twenty- 

 four to thirty-six inches. 



Flowers in the middle of July. 



