TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Polypogon. 85 



principle, have been generally neglected. The construction of 

 this word is evidently incorrect, and to restore it would prove 

 more inconvenient than instructive. See Beauvais Asr. introd. 6. 



33. POLYPOGON. Beard-grass. 



Desfont. Atlant. v. 1. 66. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 192. Comp, 7. Br. 

 Prodr. 1 73. Beauv. Agr. 1 7. t. 6./. 8. 



Cal. of 2 nearly equal, folded, keeled valves, cloven at the 

 summit ; each with a terminal, straight, rough aivn, pro- 

 ceeding from the keel ; containing a single floret. Cor: 

 of 2, somewhat unequal, ovate, concave valves, much 

 shorter than the calyx, and inclosed within it : the outer 

 keeled, terminating in a rough awn ; the inner smallest, 

 awnless, with 2 ribs, cloven at the summit. Filam. ca- 

 pillary, about the length of the corolla. Anth. terminal, 

 oblong, cloven at each end. Gennen oval. Styles short, 

 distinct. Stigm. feathery. Seed loose, ovate, polished, 

 covered by the corolla. The terminal straight avm of 

 the corolla is totally distinct in nature from the dorsal, 

 jointed, twisted, inconstant awn of an Agrostis. 



Root fibrous or creeping, annual or perennial. Stems 1 or 

 more, simple or branched, jointed, leafy. Leaves roughish. 

 Panicle erect, compound, dense, lobed, bristly from the 

 copious aisons of the numerous, small, crowded^ower^. 



1. P. monspeliensis. Annual Beard-grass. 



Awns straijffht, thrice as long as the calyx. Root fibrous. 



P. monspeliensis. Desfont. Atlant. v. 1. 67. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 



192. Comp. 13. Marsch. Taur. Cauc. v. 1. 48. 

 Alopecurus monspeliensis. Linn. Sp. PL S9. fVith. 121. 

 A. aristatus. Huds. 28. 



A. altera maxima anglicapaludosa. Moris, v. 3. 191. sect. 8. t.4.f.3. 

 A. maxima anglica. Raii Syn. 396. 

 Phleum crinitum. Schreb. Gram. v. 1, 151. ^20./.3. Fl. Br. 71. 



Fl. Grcec.v. 1.46. t.62. 

 Agrostis panicea. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.v.\. 148, ffilld. v. 1. 363. 



Engl.Bot V.2A. t. 1704. 

 A. triaristata. Knapp t. 23. 

 Gramen alopecurum majus, spica virescente divulsa, pilis longiori- 



bus. Barrel. Ic. 1. 1 15./. 2. Scheuchz. Agr. 155. 

 jS. Alopecurus paniceus. Linn. Sp. PI. 90. If'ith. 121. 

 Cynosurus paniceus. Livn.Sp. PI. ed. 1. 73. 

 Gramen alopecurum minus, spica virescente divulsa. Barrel. Ic. 



t. 115./. I, 



