APPENDIX. loSi 



quendy fliooting out a fingle branch from the 

 lowermoil joint. 



The leaves are plain, fmcoth, and flriated, glau- 

 cous when young, but turning yellowifli in 

 - • decay, thofe on the ftalk having inflated z^a- 

 giriie. 



Each flalk and branch is terminated with a fingle 

 clofely-inibricated fpike, from half an inch to 

 an inch in length, of an oval or fliort cylindri- 

 " ■ cal form, narrowed pit the bafe. 



• ' The calyx confifls of two equal, comprefs'd, acu- 

 , ' / , minated valves, their points (landing afunder 



. in a forked pofition, and their carin.e or back 

 edges ciliated with white hairs. 



Thefe valves are not truncated at the top, as in 

 other fpecies of this genus, but regularly lan- 

 . ceolate •, which feems to be the realbn why Mr. 

 Hudfon placed this grafs under the genus of 

 Phabris. Linnatis however has thought fit to 

 retain it amongft the Phleums., probably on 



' account of its habit and acuminated valves, 

 which fland open at top in a forked pofition. 



jEach calyx contains a fingle flower, compofed of 

 two downy valves, and followed by a roundifli 

 feed. 



pumiia. AGROSTIS panicula mutica fccunda, culmis faf- 

 V '. ciculatis ereftis. Syjl. nat. edit. 13. pag. ^^. 



' : _ Mantifs. 



