158 81. Coryneph. 10. GR AMINES. Pl.end.ph. 



-F. Agrostide^. Rachis panicled ; panicle sometimes 

 contracted, spikeshape ; loaistcB solitary, one-flowered ; 

 glumes and glumeUes of nearly the same consistence, often 

 keeled ; lower spathellule awned or awnless ; upper some- 

 times 2-keeled ; styles 2. 



XLI. 82. CHILOCHLOA. Beauvois. Cats-tail. 



Spathelles alternate, unequal, acute, longer than the 

 flowrets, the edge and back often pilose ; glwrnelles awnless, 

 rather cartilaginous ; rudiment of an abortive flowret pedi- 

 celled, threadshape ; zipper spathellule notched ; lodicule 

 lanceolate, not notched, bald ; style short, 2-parted ; stigmata 

 villous ; cariopsis detached, not furrowed. — Spike branched, 

 cylindrical. 



1. Chilochloa aspera. Rough cats-tail. 

 Spike cylindrical, lobed, loose; glumes naked, thickened 



above; ghnnelles blunt; culm hvanchy. 



Phleum paniculatum, Huds. Fl. AngJ. 26, omitting tbe synonyms. 

 Phalaris paniculata, Ailon llort. Kew, 6, 87. 

 Phalaris aspera, Refz Obs. 414. 

 Piileum asperuiD, Villars Delph. 1, 61. 

 Chilochloa aspera, Pal. de Beauvois, 37. 



Fields, walls, and heaths; annual; June and July. 



Root fibrous ; culms 9 in. high ; leaves smooth, the upper- 

 most very short; sheaths inflated, smooth; ligula long, acute; 

 spike stifi> rather acute ; peduncles verticillate ; glumes 

 with very short awns, keeled, gibbous above, edge opake, 

 very bluntly truncated ; smell like that of anthoxanthum. 



2. Chilochloa Boelaneri, Boehmer's cats-tail. 

 Spike cylindrical, lobed ; spathelles rather smooth, inner 



edge turned up ; spathellules acute ; sheaths slightly bellied ; 

 culm not branched. 



Phalaris plileioides, Lin. S. P. 80. 

 Phleum phalaroides, Koel. Gram. 182. 

 Piileum Bochmeri, Wil/el fVerth. 125. 



Sandy fields; perennial; June and July. 



Root fibrous; culm mostly single, purple, shining, 18 in. 

 high ; leaves and sheaths rather rough ; spike dense, ovate- 

 cylindrical. 



3. Chilochloa arenaria. Sand cats-tail. 



Spike ovate, lanceolate, scarcely branched, obtuse ; spa- 

 thelles ciliated; spathellules short, torn-edged; sheaths bel- 

 lied ; culm branchy. 



