106 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Aha. 



Graves Br. Gr. t. 44. Hook. Scot. 30. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 262. 



Fl. Dan. t. 383. Ehrh. Phyt. 8 1 . 

 Gramen parvum praecox, spica laxa canescente. Pluk. Aim. \77. 



Phyt. t. 33./. 9. Rail Syn. 407. t. 22. f. 2. 

 G. minimum, spica brevi habitiore, nostrum. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 253. 



Scheuchz. Agr. 219. 



Common on dry gravelly ground. 



Annual. May, June. 



Root of numerous long capillary fibres. Stems several, tufted, from 

 2 to 5 inches high, simple, erect, leafy, smooth. Leaves short, 

 bluntish, narrow, channelled, pale gi-een, roughish, with tumid, 

 ang-ular, smooth sheaths. Stipula lanceolate, closely embracing 

 the stem. Panicle erect, an inch long, compound, with angular 

 rough stalks. FL large in proportion to the panicle, pale green 

 or purplish. Cal. with a rough keel. Cor. smooth, except at the 

 very bottom, just above which the jointed awn of the outer 

 valve of each floret originates, and extends almost twice the 

 length of the calyx. Anth. small, pale, Stigyn. feathery, nearly 

 sessile. Seed, cylindrical, clothed with the membranous cloven- 

 pointed corolla, which is minutely bristly at the base. 



This trifling grass is of no agricultural use. It withers away as 

 summer comes on. 



8. A. caryophyllea. Silver Hair-grass. 



Panicle s]oreading, tri})le-forked. Florets not longer than 

 the calj'x, both sessile. Awn twice as long, fi"om above 

 the middle of the valve. Leaves bristle- shaped, with ribbed 

 close sheaths, 



A. caryophyllea. Linn. Sp. PI. 97. Willd. v. 1 . 380. FL Br. 88. 



EngL Bot. V. 12. f. 812. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 6. Knapp t. 35. 



Hook.Scot.30. Stilling fl. Misc. t.b. Graves Br. Gr.t.Ab. Schrad. 



Germ. r. 1. 2G1. Host Gram. v. 2. 33. L44. FLDan. t. 382. 

 Avena n. 1482. Hall Hist. v. 2. 228. 

 Gramen paniculatum minimum molle. Scheuchz. Agr. 215. t. 4. 



f.lo. 

 G. paniculatum, purpuro-argenteum, locustis parvis, annuum. 



Moris. V. 3. 200= sect. 8. t.5.f.l\. Raii Syn. 407. 

 Caiyophyllus arvensis glaber minimus. Bauh. Prodr. \Ob.f. 



On barren sandy heaths or hillocks, common. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root small, fibrous. Stems 4 to 6 inches high, with a few slender 

 leaves about the lower part, whose sheaths are smooth, purjilish, 

 ribbed and striated, but not tumid and angular like the preceding. 

 Stipula lanceolate, taper-pointed. Panicle capillary, vvith mostly 

 ternate branches, which are nearly smooth, often purpk, and a 



