PLend.ph. 10. GRAMINE.E. 82. Cliilochloa. 139 



Grameri typhinum mariiimum minus, Rail Sijn. 39S, 4, 



Phleum arenariiiin, Lin. S. P. 88. 



Phalaris phleioides /S, Alton Hort. Kcw. 1,86. 



Phalaris arenaria, Huds. Fl. ylngl. iiS. 



Chilocbloa arenaria, Pal. de Deauvois. 



Sandy places near the sea ; annual ; June. 



Roots fibrous ; culm many, leafy below, naked above, 

 9 in. high, purple, shining; leaves glaucous; slieatks smooth; 

 spike scarcely lobed. 



4. Cliilochloa hirsuta. Rough cats-tail. 



Panicle cylindrical, lobed, loose; spaihelles lanceolate, 

 keeled, ciliate hairy, with very short bristles ; spatkellides 

 oblong, hairy. 



Phleum phalarideum, VilL Delph. 2, 60. 

 Piileum .Michelii, Allioni Pedem. 2138. 

 Phalaris alpina, De Cand. Syn. Fl. Fr. 1489. 

 Cbilochloa Michelii, Pal.de Beauvois, t.7, f. 2. 



Alpine rocks; perennial; July. 



Root creeping, thickened abov^ ; culm erect, very smooth, 

 18 in. high; leaves smooth, edge membi^anous, white; 

 sheaths lax ; uppe?- very long, purplish ; ligula obtuse ; pa- 

 nicle soft, green or purplish. 



XLII. 83. PHLEUM. Pliny. Timothy. 



Spathelles alternate, boatshaped, compressed, nearly equal, 

 twice as long as the spathellules, truncated at the tip, 

 pointed with a prominent, bristlelike, intermediate rib; 

 glumelle awnless; lower spalhellule truncated, many toothed, 

 inclosing the upper twotoothed spathellule; lodicule lan- 

 ceolate, acute, not nicked, bald; ovary beaked; beak in- 

 clined; style 2-parted; 5/ /i/ma^a nearly aspergilliform, vil- 

 lous ; cariopsis free, not furrowed, beaked ; beak 2-parted. 

 — Spike cylindrical. 



1 . Phleum pratense. Meadow timothy. 



Spike cylindrical, very long ; spathelle much longer 

 than the beard; keel cihated; culm upright; root fibrous. 



Gramen typhinum majus sive primum, Ger. em. 11 ; Rail Syn. 398, 1. 

 Gramen typhinum medium seu vulgalissimiim, Park. 1170. 

 Phleum pratense, Lin. S. P. 87. 



Fields and pastures ; perennial ; July to September. 



Culm 3 feet high, naked above, smooth, bald ; leaves flat, 

 very acute, bald, rough; ligula obtuse; spike 3 to 5 in. 

 long, green, rather blunt; locusts very much crowded. 



p. viviparum. Glumes and glumelles changed into leaves. 



y. minus. Culm short, not bulbose at the base. 



