138 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuca. 



C. echinatus. Linn. Sp. PL 105. TVilld. u. 1 . 412. Fl. Br. 1 12. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 19. t. 1333. Fl. GrcEc. v. I. 61. t. 78. Knapp t. 65. 

 Sincl. 211. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 315. Host Gram. v. 2. 67. t. 95. 



C. n. 1546. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 251? 



Gramen alopecuroides, spiea aspera. Bauh. Prodr. 1 0./. Theatr. 58. 

 /. 59. Scheuchz. Agr 80. t. 2./. 8. B, D. Raii Syn. 397. 



G. paniceuni;, spica aspera latiore. Moris, u. 3. 189.secf.8. ^4./.13. 



On sandy ground in the south of England, towards the sea. 



Common in Jersey. Sherard. Near Sandwich. Hudson. Near 

 Hastings, but very sparingly. Bishop of Carlisle. Sussex. Mr. 

 Sowerby. 



Annual. July. 



Root with downy fibres, as usual in grasses inhabiting a loose sand. 

 Stems one or more, smooth, round, leafy, 10 — 20 inches high. 

 Leaves roughish, broad at their base, tapering to a sharp point. 

 Sheaths two-edged, swelling, roughish. Stipulas lanceolate, the 

 uppermost longest. Spike dense, various in luxuriance, distin- 

 guished by the eleg-antly pectinated neuter spikelets at the back, 

 and bristly with the long rough awns of the perfect ones in front. 



The late Mr. Davall suspected the larger-spiked variety, Barrel. 

 Ic. i. 123. /. 2, might be a distinct species. It is the Swiss plant, 

 and approaches C. elegans of Desfontaines, Atlant. v. \. t. \7. 

 Ours has a smaller spike, with much fewer flowers. 



51. FESTUCA. Fescue-grass. . 

 Unn. Gen. 36. Juss. 32. Fl. Br. 1 13. Lam. t. 46. 



Cal. of 2 very unequal, lanceolate, acute, pointed, concave, 

 keeled valves, containing an oblong, compi-essed, imbri- 

 cated spikelet, of many altei'nate, two-ranked, more or less 

 avraed, perfect^ord-Zs. Cor. of 2 unequal valves ; the outer 

 genei'aliy nearly cylindrical, entire, pointed or awned, 

 keeled, concave, scarcely compressed, more or less ribbed, 

 longer than the calyx, a little inflexed at the edges ; inner 

 narrower, elliptic-oblong, two-ribbed, cloven or abrupt at 

 the summit, the margins membranous, folded in at each 

 rib, which is, for the most part, downy externally. Nect. 

 of 1, deeply divided, or of 2 separate, sometimes cloven, 

 acute scales. Filani. capillary, shorter than the cor. Anth. 

 linear, })endulous, notched at each end. Germen turbhiate. 

 Styles distant, short. Stigmas feathery. Seed oblong, with 

 a longitudinal furrow, acute, quite loose, though closely 

 enveloped in the unchanged corolla. 



Hoot annual, or perennial. Stems erect, or spreading, leafy, 

 knotty. Leaves generally narrow. Fl. panicled, often 

 purplish, nearly or quite erect. 



