PI. end. ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 63. Festuca. I2» 



fi. glabra. LocustcB 3-flowered. 



Festuca glabra, Lightf. Fl. Scot. 1085. 

 Festuca rubra y. Smith Fl. Brit. 116. 



9. Festuca duriusmla. Stiff-' fesaie. 



Panicle facing oneway, upright, spreatiing; locustcB lan- 

 ceolate, smoothish, bristled; leaves stiff, bristlelike, sea- 

 green; root fibrous. 



Festuca avenacea q. (ilramen pratense panicula duriore laxa, unam 

 partem spectantia, Itaii Syn. 413,4. 

 Ffstuca duriuscula, Lin. S. P. 108. 

 Festuca dura. Host Gram. Austr. a, 87. 

 Festuca duriuscula laevigata, Gaudin Agr. Helv. 251. 



Dry pastures ; perennial ; June. 



Roots in tufts; radical leaves many, hard, smoothish; 5/^771- 

 leaves flat, stiff, short ; sheaths smooth ; ligula short, brown ; 

 panicle oblong* broad, green and white; pedimcles single. 



10. Festuca 4umelor7im. Hedge fescue. 



Panicle uprighf, spikeshape, facing one way; locustcB 

 pubescent, bristled ; bristle shorter than the glumelle ; 

 leaves threadlike, seagreen ; 7-00/ fibrous. 



Festuca dumetorum, Lin. S. P. 109. 

 Festuca duriuscula, v;ir. Huds, Fl. -dng. 45. 



Dry pastures ; perennial ; June. 



Roots in tufts ; leaves many ; stem-leaves slender, flattish, 

 rather stiff; panicle slender; locustce smaller than festuca 

 duriuscula; glumelle entirely pubescent. 



XXIII. 64. VULPIA. Graelin. Capons-tail. 



Glumes 4, 6, or 8-flowered ; spathelles parallel, very un- 

 equal; in?ier 3 or 4 times shorter than the outer; glumelle 

 bristled ; lower spathellule ending in a bristle longer than 

 the glumelle; upper 2-cut, toothed; lodicule ovate, entire, 

 hairy; stamen 1; stigmata v'lWose', carzo/w/^ rather husked, 

 furrowed. — Rachis jointed; panicle racemose, facing one 

 way; pedicels inflated, wedgeshape; leaves bristlelike. 



1. Vulpia murorum. Wall capon<i-tail. 



Panicle long, rather contracted, drooping, spiked, many- 

 flowered ; locustas smoothish ; inner spathelle half the length 

 of the outer; culm inclosed in a sheath nearly to the panicle; 

 ligula short, 2-eared. 



Festuca avenacea q. Gramen murorum spica longissima, Ger, em. ''9. 

 Rail Syn, 415, 12. 



Festuca myu'rus, Lin. S. P. 109. 

 yulpia mjurns, Gmel. Fl, Bad. 1,8. 



