CALAMAGROSTIS. 



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very little beyond the apex of its glume ; palea one-tliird 

 shorter, very thin and transparent, cloven at the summit ; 

 scales acute; anthers large and pendulous; filaments slender. 



This species affects groves, hedges, and brushwood, in 

 wet situations ; its favourite 

 counties are Devon, Dorset, 

 Sussex, Suffolk, Northamp- 

 ton, Hants, Lincoln, Leices- 

 ter, Yorkshire, and Cumber- 

 land. It is also found in 

 various parts of Ireland. 

 Its foreign habitats are 

 Lapland, Norway, Sweden, 

 Prance, Germany, Switzer- 

 land, Italy, Spain, Portugal, 

 Turkey, Greece, North A- 

 frica, Siberia, and British 

 America. 



The Purple Smallreed is 

 distinguished from the Lap- 

 land Smallreed in the hairs being longer than the flow- 

 ering glume, which itself is one-third shorter than the 

 outer glumes. It differs from the Wood Smallreed in 

 its short awn, and from the Narrow Smallreed in the 

 position of the awn, which in that species rises from be- 

 neath the centre of the flowering glume, while in the 

 Purple Smallreed it rises near the apex. 



It flowers from the end of June to the beginning of 

 August. 



3. Calamagrostis stricta, Nutt. Narrow Smallreed. 



Root perennial, creeping; stem erect, round, roughish, 



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