TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Festuca. 25 



seven flowered. Calyx shorter than the florets. Stipiila 

 very short and blunt. E. B. 340. 



Pastures, 



Per. June. 



Panicle diffuse, tremulous. Culm simple, solitary. 



DA'CTYLIS. Cock's-foot-grass. 



D. glomerata. Rough C. Panicle distantly branched. 

 Flowers in close globular tufts, leaning one way. Co- 

 rolla somewhat awned, five-ribbed, taper-pointed. E. 

 B. 335. 



Meadows, Pastures. 



Per. July. 



Ls. harsh and rough. Lower branches of the panicle very strad- 

 dling, sometimes compound. A harsh coarse grass, not very 

 acceptable to cattle ; but when cultivated on dry, open land, its 

 quality becomes excellent, and the crop abundant. Sm. 



CYNOSU'RUS. Dog's-tail-grass. 



C. cristatus. Crested D. Spike simple, linear. Neuter 



spikelets without awns. E. B. 316. Gramen crista- 



tum. G. E. 29.* 

 Dry 'pastures, meadows. 

 Per. June. 

 Each spikelet with another abortive one, resembling a small 



double-toothed comb. 



Valuable grass for sheep and deer, thriving on dry open ground. 

 One of Cobbett's grasses for straw plat. 



FESTU'CA. Fescue-grass. - 



F. ovina. Sheep's F. Panicle leaning one way, rather 

 close. Florets cylindrical, pointed or awned ; smooth 

 at the base, and at the edges of the inner valve. Stem 

 square towards the upper part. Leaves folded, bristle- 

 shaped. Stipula short and blunt. E. B. 585. F. te- 

 nuifolia Sb. 44 ? 



Dry open pastures. 



Per. June. 



The square stem, a distinctive mark ; also the smooth-edged inner 

 valve of the cor. 



Supposed peculiarly excellent for sheep. 

 Cattle leave the stalks of this, and other gi'asses untouched : a 



provision of nature to increase the grasses. The flowers vary with, 



and without awns. .Sibthorps F. tenuifolia in Smith's Eng. Fl. 



