E'lymus.'] cyii. gramine^. o67 



pairj I 34. Phragmites Trin. Eeed. (Tab. VIII. f. 31.) 



^^^^f Panicle loose. Spihelets distichous, with 3 — 4 many distant 



^'^'s perfect florets and a barren one at the base, which are all en- 



veloped in long silky hairs attached to the rachis of the spikelet. 

 Glumes 2, membranaceous, unequal, shorter than the floret, the 

 lower much smaller. Glumellas 2, membranaceous ; outer end- 

 ing in a long subulate awnless point. — Name: (ppayiiirric^ an 

 enclosure^ or materials for an enclosure^ these reeds being used 

 for that purpose. 



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]. V. communis Tvm. (common R.); panicle spreading, spike- 

 lets coloured about 5 -flowered longer than the glumes, leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate-cuspidate. Arundo Phragmltes X. ; E. 

 B. t. 4Q1 : Parn. Or. t. 29. 



Abundant in ditches, margins of lakes, rivers, &c, ^. 7, 8, 

 Cums 6 ft. or more high, usually erect, rarely prostrate and very long 

 ^^3 (20 — 40 feet). (Bromjield,) Panicle lurge, purplish-brown, at length 



f^ it drooping, very handsome. Glumes very unequal : lower ovate-lanceolate, 



flat, many ribbed; upper twice as long, thin, membranaceous, obsoletely 



hifl ribbed. As the flowers advance, the tufts of hair increase, at length 



becoming very silky. This plant frequently forms patches of immense 



?st 



^the extent, called Reed-ronds in some parts of the east of England, which, 

 any, harl)our many aquatic birds, and the rare Parus biarmicus or bearded 

 than tit-mouse. Much use is made of the culms, for thatching, garden- 

 urn- screens, for walls and floors which are afterwards covered with 

 two , clay, &c. 



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b. Spikelets spiked, either sessile or sliortly stalked^ and ar^ 

 ranged in a simple or compound spike or spike-like raceme, 

 (Tab.IX. f.42. e.f g. (Gen. 35—44.) 



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* Spikelets inserted on different sides of the common axis or 

 rachis^ sometimes slightly unilateral. (Tab. IX. f. 42. e. f.) 

 (Gen. 35—41.) 



35. E'lymus Linn. Lyme-grass. (Tab. VIII. f. 32.) 

 Spikelets in pairs from the same joint of the rachis^ each with 



ix, 1 2—4 fertile florets. Glumes 2, collateral (both on one side of 



the spikelet), awnless. Glumellas 2, covering and usually in- 

 corporated with the mr2/op525. ^ ISTame : i\viJ.oQ^ given by the 

 Greeks to the Panic-grasses^ perhaps because they grew abun- 

 dantly about Elyma in Greece. Theis. 



1. E. arendrius L. (upright Sea i.); spike close erect, rachis 

 by ^^t but not winged, florets as long as the lanceolate downy 



\e, glumes. E. B. t. 1672: Parn, Gr. t. 64. 



1/ Sandy sea-shores, frequent. 1\.. 7. — Root much creeping in the 



^ loose soil ; hence this grass becomes of great value, like the Ammo- 



