74 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Phalaris. 



1. Ph. canariensis. .Manured Canary-grass. 



Panicle ovate, resembling a spike. Calyx-glumes boat- 

 shaped ; entire at the summit. Outer corolla of two 

 naked valves. 



Ph. canariensis. Linn. Sp. PL 79. Wtlld. v. 1. 326. Fl. Br. 62. 



Engl. Bot. V. 1 9. t. 1310. Mart. Bust. t. 17. Knapp t. 3. Hook. 



Scot. 23. Schrad.Germ.v.l.\77. Leers 18. t. 7. f. 3 f. Schreb. 



Gram. v. 1. 83. t. 10./. 2. Sincl. 303. 

 Phalaris. Ger. Em. 86./. 

 Ph. major, semine albo. Bauh. Theatr. 534. f. Scheuchz.AgT.b2. 



t. 2./. 3. A, C, E, F. Moris, v. 3. 186. sect. 8, t. 3./. 1 . Dill. 



in Bail Syn. 394. 



In cultivated and waste ground, probably naturalized. 



Annual. June — August. 



Boot of many white fibres. Stem 1 or more, 2 feet high, erect, 

 leafy, striated, roughish, with brown joints. Leaves broad, soft, 

 acute, with long tumid sheaths, and a blunt stipula. Panicle 

 compact, erect, compound, though resembling a simple ovate 

 spike, elegantly variegated with green and white. Seeds po- 

 lished, the usual food of Canary-birds. 



2. Ph. arundmacea. Reed Canary -grass. 



Panicle upright, with spreading branches. Flowers crowded, 

 unilateral. Outer corolla of two bearded valves. 



Ph. ainindinacea. Linn. Sp. PL 80. Comp. 11. Engl. Bot. v. 6. 

 t. 402. V. 30. L 2160./. 2. Huds.23. Hook. ScoL 23. Pur- 

 ion 69. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 180. L 6./ 5. FL Dan. t. 259. 

 Leers J 8. t. 7 ■f.3. Ehrh. Calam. 51. 



Arundo colorata. Soland. in Ait. H. Kew. ed. 1. r. 1. 116. Dry- 

 andr. ibid. ed. 2. 7). 1. 174. Fl. Br. 147. Knapp t. 98. Willd. 

 V. 1. 457. 



A. n. 1524. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 243. 



Gramen arundinaceum acerosa gluma. Baii Syn. 400. Moris, v. 3. 

 203. sects. L6.f.4]. 



G. aquaticum paniculatum, phalaridis semine. Tourn. Inst. 523. 

 Scheuchz. Agr. 126. t. 3./. 4. 



In ditches, pools, and the margins of rivers, common. 



Perennial. Juhj. 



Root tufted, creeping, with strong horizontal shoots. Stem, 4 or 5 

 feet high, reed-like, jointed, hollow, smooth. Leaves harsh, 

 lanceolate, flat, taper-pointed, striated, as well as their close 

 sheaths. Stipula short, bluntish", decurrent. Panicle erect, 

 large, lobed, with spreading, angular, rough branches. Fl. very 

 numerous, crowded, leaning one way, often pur|3lish. Calyx- 

 glumes equal, acute, keeled, ribbed. Inner Corolla downy ; at 

 length cartilaginous, inclosing the seed j outer of 2 very minute, 



