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KOELEEIA CRISTATA. 



Peesoon. Hookee and Aenott. Koch. Babington. 



PLATE XXIX. B. 



Aira cristata, LiNNiEus. J. E. Smith. Hookee. 



" " Geeville. Knapp. Scheadee. 



" " Hudson. Eeichenbach. 



Airochloa cristata. Link. Paenell. Lindley. 



Poa cristata, Willdenow. Witheeing. Hull. 



" " Eelhan. Sibthoep. Abbot. 



" " Host. Leees. Ehehaet. 



The Crested Hair- Grass. 



Koeloria — After tlie continental botanist, Koeler. Cristata — Crested. 



Koeleeia. Persoon. — The present genus is named in honour of the 

 author of a work on the Grasses of Germany and France, published 

 fifty-five years ago by George Louis Koeler. The panicle is rounded and 

 spiked. 



England possesses only one species, namely, Koeleria cristata. 



This Grass is rejected by cattle. It grows in dry situations 

 near the sea, and on rocks as much as fifteen hundred feet 

 above the sea-level. Frequent, more especially in the north of 

 England, in Scotland, and in Ireland. 



Native also of France, Italy, and Germany. 



Better known as the Aira cristata, of Linnajus. 



Stem upright, circular, pubescent, bearing two or three stiff, 

 rough, pubescent, narrow, acute leaves, with hairy striated 

 sheaths, the upper one longer than its leaf, having at its apex 



