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AGROSTIS VULGARIS. 



WlTHEEING. HOOKEK AND AeKOTT. PaENELL. SmITS. 



Hull. Eelhan. Knapp. Sinclaie. Sohradee. Hoffmann. Lindley, 



Gbeville. Koch. 



PLATE XVIII. A. 



Agrostis canina, Witheeing. 



" pumila, LiGHTFOOT. LiNNJSUS. 



WiLLDENOW. EhEHAET. 



tennis, Stbthoep. 



" capillaris, Abbot. Eoth. 



" polymorpha, Hudson. 



hispida, Willdenow. 



'" stolonifera, Lbees. Ehehaet. 



The Fine Bent Grass. 



Agrostis — A Field. Vulgaris — Common. 



A COMMON English Grass, growing in dry pastures and on 

 heaths. 



Of no agricultural value. 



Common in Ireland and Scotland, and is a native of France, 

 Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, and North 

 America. 



Root perennial, tufted, and creeping. Stem upright, circular, 

 and polished, having five or six short, flat, rough, narrow, acute, 

 dentate leaves, with smooth striated sheaths, the uppermost one 

 slightly longer than its leaf, having an abrupt, blunt, membranous 

 ligule at the apex. Joints smooth. Inflorescence compound 

 panicled. Panicle upright, either brownish purple or light green. 

 Branches spreading zig-zag, delicate, rough, proceeding from the 



