THE GENERA AND THEIR SPECIES. 



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half-way up the stem, ribs promi- 

 nent and unequal. Sheaths downy, 

 tumid ; ligule short, blunt, jagged. 

 Spike erect, compact, interrupted 

 near base, sub-cylindrical, silvery 

 grey. Spikelets compressed, florets 

 two or three, awnless. Glumes 

 compressed, inner the larger, 

 pointed, lanceolate, ribs three. 

 Outer palea like inner glume, white, 

 glossy, ribs three, keel toothed ; 

 inner palea thin, bifid, edges folded 

 and serrated, white. 



Koeleria cristaiaS 

 Spikelet. For Floret see p. 53. 



Lagurus. Plate viii. AGROSTIDE&. 



23. ovatus 12 in. Hare's-tail. Spike short, ovate and 



silky. 



Sandy shores ; Guernsey, rang- 

 ing from the Mediterranean through 

 Western Europe. June and July. 

 Root annual, fibres woolly and 

 short. Stem geniculate at first, 

 then erect, downy; nodes four or 

 five. Leaves broad, lanceolate, 

 short, many-ribbed, downy on 

 both sides, edges wavy. Sheaths 

 long, tumid and downy ; ligule 

 oblong, downy, embracing stem. 

 Spike ovate, less than an incli in 

 length, with long, silky hairs. Spike- 

 lets numerous, crowded, one floret. Glumes equal, narrow, long, 

 spreading, plumose. Outer palea shorter than glumes, apex with 

 two awns, back with one long, bent awn ; inner palea smaller 

 than outer, with two awns from its apex. Scales lanceolate, 

 obtuse, tumid at base. 



Lagurus ovaius. 

 Spikelet. Foe Floret see p. 47 



