PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINE^. 95. Polypogon. 153 



Damp fields on sea-coasts ; annual ; July and August. 



Root small; culms many, 18 in. high, smooth, bald; leaves 

 striated ; sheaths long, bald ; ligula torn ; panicle upright, 

 lobed, branched ; locust(B numerous, crowded, 1 -sided, 

 greenish yellow. 



0. paniceus. Culm 6 in. high ; panicle very small, scarcely 

 lobed. 



Phleum criiiitum, Huds. Fl. Angl. 28. 

 Alopecurus paniceus, Lin. S. P. 90. 

 C^noburus paniceus, Lin. S. P. ed. 1,73. 



LV. 96. LAGURUS. Linnaeus. Hares-tail 



Glumes 1 -flowered; spathelles alternate, linear, rough- 

 edged, longer than the spathellules, nearly equal or lower 

 smaller; lower spathellule 2-bristled at the tip, awned on 

 the back above the middle; upper not nicked ; awn twisted, 

 bent; lodicide ovate, not nicked, bald; style short, 2-parted; 

 stigmata hairy ; cariopis free, not furrowed. — Panicle 

 branched, spikeshape. 



Lagiiriis ovatus. Eggshaped hares-tail. 



Spike ovate, drooping ; leaves pubescent ; awn twice as 

 long as the spathelle. 



Lagurus ovatus, Lin. S. P. 119, 



Sandy fields ; annual ; June. 



Culm solitary, IS in. high, ascending, bald, naked above; 

 lower leaves lanceolate, acute ; vpper ovate ; sheaths long, 

 bellied below ; ligula oblong ; loaistcs many, crowded ; 

 spathelles ciliated. 



G. SxiPACEiE. Rachis panicled ; locustce. solitary, one- 

 flowered ; spathelles membranaceous ; lower spathellules sol- 

 dered, leathery; upper not 2-keeledj involving, awned ; stig- 

 mata 2. 



LVI. 97. STIPA. Linnaeus. Feather-grass, 



Spathelles membranaceous, longer than the spathellules; 

 spathellules cartilaginous; lower convolute, awned at the 

 tip; upper not nicked; awn long, jointed, falling ofl"; lodicule 

 oblong, not nicked, bald ; stamens 1 or 3 ; style short, 

 2-parted ; stigmata villous ; cariopsis free, furrowed. — 

 Panicle scarcely branched, loose. 



