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CVir. GHAMINE^. 





[ Calamagrostis. 



m 



referred by sir J. E. Smith, to Pol^pogon. The fflumes are more 

 acuminate than in P. Monsp., and taper more gradually into ihl 

 much shorter awn ; outer fflumeUa truncate ; both toothed at the 

 pomts. — Long supposed peculiar to England, but found in Ger 

 many, France, and Spain, although described under different names." 



13. Calamagrostis Ada7is. Small-reed. (Tab. VIII. f. 12 ) 



Panicle loose or close. Spilielets laterally compressed. Glumes 

 2, nearly equal, longer than the floret, which is surrounded bv 

 scaly hairs at the base. Glumellas 2, membranaceous ; outer 

 one (sometimes shortly) awned at the point or back, very rarely 

 awnless. Neuter floret wanting, or reduced to a short scale or 

 pedicel.— ISTamed from KokaiioQ, one of the Palms, and aypoGnq 

 a genus of grasses; a barbarous denomination, only admissible 

 on the ground of its being now generally adopted. 



1. C. Epigejos Koth {Wood S.)-, pknicle erect close, spike- 

 lets crowded unilateral, glumes subulate their keel rouo-h, outer 

 glumella with a dorsal awn from about its middle nearly as 

 long as the glumes, hairs longer than the glumellas, neuter 

 florets none. Parn. Or. t. 16. Arundo L. : E. B. t. 403. ■ 



In shady moist places, not very common. Dalrymple Wood Ayr- 

 also m Argyle, and Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 2^. 7.— -Someau! 

 thors still retain the name Arundo for this genus, but the Roman 

 name Jrundo was applied partly to Phragmites, partly to the Donax 

 of the Greeks, not to any species of Calamagrostis. 



^ 2. C. lanceoluta Eoth {purpleflowered S.); panicle erect 

 loose, spikelets scattered spreading, glumes lanceolate their keel 

 smooth, outer glumella with a very short terminal awn between 

 the bifid point and scarcely longer than it, hairs lon^ver than 

 tlie glumellas, neuter florets none. Parn. Gr. t. 84. Arundo 

 Calamagrostis L. : E. B. t.2\5d. 



1 



Moist hedges, in fenny countries, not uncommon. 2/.. 6 _ Panicle 

 much smaller and looser than the last ; spikelets more purple and 



(naj'row S.) 



lanceolate acute a little rough on the keel with 3 or more 

 nerves, outer glumella bifid nearly as long as the upper glume 

 longer than the hairs, with an awn equal to it in height inserted 

 below the middle, neuter floret rudimentary, leaves of the 

 barren shoots slencler. Parn. Gr. t. 16. C. Lapponica Hook : 

 ,^ar«. pr t. 85. Bejeuxm Kunth. Avnndo stride Schrad.: 



Ji>, ±S. t. 21o0. ^ . 



Bogs and marshes, very rare. Oakmere in Delaware Forest, Che- 

 shire. White Muir Marsh and Rescobie Loch, near Forfar, now 

 extirpated by drainage. Lough Neagh, and other places in the 

 county of Antrim. If. 6, 7. -Culms l>-3 ft. high. Leaves of 





