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Scot. 22. Schrad Germ. v. 1.1/1. Schreb. Gram. i;. 1.140. 



1. 19./. 2. Leers 16. t. 2./.5. Fl. Dan. t. 697. Ehrh. Phyt. 71. 



Sincl. 165. 

 A. tnyosuroides. Huds. ed. 1 . 23. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t. 7. 

 A. n. 1540. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 249. 

 Gramen myosuroides majus, spica longiorC;, aristis rectis. Raii 



Syn. 397. 

 G. spicatum, spica cylindracea, tenuissima, longiore. Scheuchz. 



Agr. 69. t. 2./. 6, A, B. _ 



G. alopecuroides, spic9, longa, tenuiore. Moris, u.3. 192. sect. 8. 



<.4./. 12. 

 G. alopecurinum minus. Ger. Em. 11./. 

 /3. G. myosuroides minus, spica breviore, aristis recurvis, Raii 



Syn. 397. 



In cultivated fields, and by way sides. 



Annual. July. 



Root small, fibrous. -Stems several, 1^ or 2 feet high, erect, leafy, 

 roughish to the touch in the upper part. Leaves pale, rough 

 above, with longish swelling sheaths, and each an oblong downy 

 stipula. Spike slender, tapering at each end, 3 inches long, often 

 purplish J the partial stalks almost entirely simple, and close- 

 pressed. Calyx-glumes combined a good way up, lanceolate, 

 narrow,. a little downy at the edge ; their keel dilated, but far 

 less fringed than in A. pratensis. Cor. smooth. Awn twice the 

 length of the calyx. Stijles short, united. Stigmas thrice as long, 

 slender, downy. 



fi, in Buddie's herbarium, is a very trifling variety, merely starved, 



4. A. bulbosus. Bulbous Fox-tail-grass. 



Stem erect. Spike tapering, perfectly simple. Calyx-glumes 

 distinct, linear, pointed, downy. Root bulbous. 



A. bulbosus. Linn. Sp. PI. 1665. Willd. v.\. 356. Fl. Br. 73. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 18. 1. 1249. Knapp t.\7. 



Gramen myosuroides nodosum. Dill, in Raii Syn. 397. /. 20./ 2. 



G. typhinum phalaroides, pilosa spica, aquaticum bulbosum. Bar- 

 rel. Ic. t.699.f.\. 



In wet salt marshes, rare. 



First found by James Sherard, but the place is omitted by Dillenius, 

 On the north side of Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. In Cardiff 

 marshes, Glamorganshire, and near the Aust passage. Rev. 

 Mr. Light/oofs herbarium. Near Weymouth. Mr. Lambert. 



Perennial. July. 



Root of several, aggregate, ovate, solid, fleshy bulbs, sometimes 

 one above the other, with fibres beneath. Stems solitary from 

 the top of each bulb, slender, round, smooth, leafy, with 2 joints, 

 occasionally bent at the lowermost, otherwise erect, about a 



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