152 94. Gastridium. 10. GRAMINE^. Pl.end.ph. 



Gramen pauiceum q. Panicum serotinum arvensc, sp'ica pjramidat* 

 Touinefort, Itaii Syn. 394, 4. 



Miliiim lendigenmi, Lin. S, P. 91. 



Agrostis australis, Lin. Slant. 1,30. 



Agrostis rubra, Hiuls.ed. 1,26, 



Alopecurus ventricosus, Huds. Fl.Angl. 28, 



Agrostis ventricosa, Gouan Hort. 39. 



Agrostis panicea, Lamarck Enc.Melh. 1, 5S. 



Agrostis lendigera, De Cand. Sijn. Fl. Gall. 1508. 



Sandy meadows and pastures; annual; August. 



Root fibrous; culm branchy, upright, very smooth; leaver 

 flat, slender, short, bald, rough ; sheaths smooth ; ligula 

 long, 2-parted : panicle greenish white ; pedinicles branched i 

 locust (£ crowded. 



LIV. 95. POLYPOGON. Desfontaines, Beards, 



Glumes 1-flowered ; spathelles alternate, nearly equal or 

 lower largest, much longer than the spathellules, slightly 

 nicked and with a long bristle at the tip ; spathelhdes car- 

 tilaginous ; lower not notched, bristled below the tip ; upper 

 2-cut, toothed ; bristle of the glumelle straight, herbaceous ; 

 style 2-parted ; stigmata villous ; cariopsis free, not furrowed. 

 — Panicle branched, contracted, nearly spikeshape. 



1. Tolypogon liitoralis. Shore beards. 

 Spathellules smooth; Iristle scarcely longer than the 



spathelles ; culm decumbent ; root creeping. 



Agrostis hito;a, Poiret Enc. Meth. Sup. 1,249. 

 Agrostis liitoralis, TVilli. Bot. Arr. 2, 129, 

 Polypogon liitoralis. Smith Comp. FL Br. 13. 



Salt marshes ; perennial ; August. 



Culm decumbent at bottom, 12 in. high, smooth; leaves 

 broad, flat, rough ; ligida pubescent, torn ; panicle close, 

 lobed ; locustcc white, green or purple at the tip. 



2. Polypogon Monspeliensis. Montpelier leards. 

 Spathellules pubescent, hispid; Irisiles 3 times as long 



as the spathelles ; culm erect ; root fibrous. 



Gramen alopecuroides, q. Alopecurus maxima Anglica Parkinson, 

 (1166), Rail Syn. 396,4. 



Alopecurus altera maxima Anglica paUidosa, Ger. em, 88. 



Alopecurus Monspeliensis, Lin. S. P. S9. 



Alopecurus aristatus, llmJs. Fl. Arigl. 28. 



Plileum crinitum, Schreb. Gram. 131. 



Agrostis panicea, Willd. S. P. I , SGS. 



Agrostis tri-aristata, Knapp Gram. '23. 



