148 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Festuca. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root fibrous, tufted. Stems several, erect, about 2 feet high, simple, 

 leafy, round, very smooth, bent at the lowrest joint only. Leaves 

 linear, pointed, spreading, flat, striated ; rough at the edges, 

 sometimes on the upper side, especially the uppermost. Sheaths 

 striated, very smooth. Stipula very short and obtuse, often torn, 

 decurrent, clasping the stem. Panicle nearly erect, simply or 

 doubly branched, the branches inclining to one side, solitary or 

 in pairs, unequal, with compressed, rough stalks ; all closed to- 

 gether after flowering. Valves of the calyx rather acute, keeled, 

 smooth ; the larger ovate-lanceolate, with 3 or 5 ribs j smaller 

 single-ribbed. Spikelets linear, of 8 or 9 florets. Outer valve 

 of the corolla cylindrical, keeled, more or less purple, smooth, 

 except the keel, obscurely 5-ribbed at the upper part, ending in 

 a membranous point, which, in the upper ^ore^s chiefly, is often 

 cloven, and attended by a short awn; inner valve cloven, its 

 marginal ribs downy. Nectary with 4 divaricated points. Ger- 

 men obovate, with short distant styles, and thick feathery stigmas. 

 Seed lanceolate, channelled along the upper side, loose, acute. 



A hardy early grass, affording a plentiful crop. Curtis. 



12. Y.elatior. Tall Fescue-grass. 



Panicle somewhat drooping, much branched, spreading 

 loosely every way. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate. Florets 

 numerous, cylindrical, somewhat awned, obscurely ribbed. 

 Nectary four-cleft. Root creeping. 



F. elatior. Linn. Sp. PL 111. Fl. Br. 124. Engl. Bot.v. 23- 

 t. 1593. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 8. Hook. Scot. 40. Sincl. 255, 

 257. Schrad.Germ.v.l.d^Z. 



F. arundinacea. Schreb.Spicil.b7. Ehrh. Calam. 125. Villars 

 Dauph. V.2.W6. t.4. 



Bromus littoreus. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.\.\4. Host Gram. v. 1.7- 1. 8. 



Sincl. 259. 

 B.n. 1511. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 233. 

 Gramen arundinaceum aquaticum, panicula avenacea. Rail Syn. 



411. 



G. paniculatum nemorosum, latiore folio, glabrum, panicula nu- 

 tante non aristata. Ddl. in Raii Syn. 411; but the plant of Mi- 

 cheli is F. calamaria, n. 9. 



G. loliaceum, spica divisa, pratense majus. Moris, v. 3. 183. sec*. 8. 



*.2./.15. 

 G. arundinaceum, locustis viridi-spadiceis loliaceis, brevius aris- 



tatis. Scheuchz. Agr. 266. t. 5.f. 18, 

 Dover Grass. Herb. Sherard. 



In moist meadows, osier-grounds, and the borders of ditches and 



ponds, much less frequent than the last. 

 Perennial. June, July. 



