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and Cley, Norfolk ; Little Baddow and Great Lelghs, Essex ; Sheppy 

 Isle and Erith, Kent ; Sussex ; Isle of Wight (abundant) ; Wey- 

 mouth, Dorsetsh. ; Devonsh. ; Somerset ; Gloucester. N. Wales. 

 %, 6 — 10. • — Culms 4 — 6 or 8 inches high, with numerous glossy 

 florets, singularly swollen at the base. 



IL Stipa Linn. Feather-grass. (Tab. VL f. 11.) 



Panicle erect,contracted (but not spiked). Glumes 2, longer 

 than the floret, membranaceous. Floret stipitate. Glumellas 

 cartilaginous; outer one involute, terminated with, a very long 

 twisted awn ; aM?/i jointed at the base, |and finally separating at 



the joint. Neuter florets 



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the flaxen or silky appearance of the common species of the 

 gardens. 



1. S. ^penndta L. (common F.) ; leaves rigid setaceous 

 grooved, awns exceedingly long feathery to the point. E. B. 

 t. 1356 : Parn. Or. t. 87. 



Said to have been found in Dillenius's time in Westmoreland. %, 

 6. — A great ornament to our gardens in the summer, and to our 

 rooms in the winter, for if gathered before the seed is ripe, the long 

 feathery awns remain, and a tuft of this grass is almost as beautiful as 

 the famed tail of the Bird of Paradise. 



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12. PoLYPOGON Desf. Beard-grass. (Tab. VI. f. 10.) 



Panicle compact, somewhat spiked. Spikelets laterally com- 

 pressed. Glumes 2, equal, longer than the floret, each notched 

 and with a long straight awn at the extremity. Glumellas 

 unequal ; the outer obtuse, usually awned almost at the very 

 extremity. Neuter florets 0. — Named from ttoXu, ma7iy^ and 

 TTOjywv, a heard; from the bearded appearance of the panicle. 



1. P. Monspeliensis Desf. (annual B,); awns 2 — 3 times as 

 long as the rather obtuse rough glumes, root annual. Parn. Gr. 

 1. 11. Agrostis panicea E, B. t. 1704. 



Rare, in moist pastures near the sea. Hampshire ; Purfleet, Essex ; 

 Northfleet Hope, Thames; Cley, Norfolk; Gloucester; Durham 

 (on ballast hills). Guernsey. Inverkeithing, Fifeshire. 0. 6 — 8. 



A beautiful grass ; rare, but undoubtedly wild in our country ; 

 most abundant in the warmer parts of Europe. In Hampshire it is 

 sometimes found 4 feet high. 



. 2. P. littordlis Sm. (perennial B.) ; awns equal in length to 

 the almost glabrous acute glumes, root perennial. Parn. Gr. 

 t 81. Agrostis E. B. t. 1251. 



. Muddy salt-marshes, very rare. Near Cley, Norfolk ; coast of 

 Essex ; near the powder magazine, Woolwich ; Saltmarsh pool, near 

 Porchester, Hants (where the culms are 6 feet long and decumbent 

 below.) 2]L. 7, — ^Very different from the last species ; yet rightly 



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