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TEITICQM CANINUM. 



Hudson. SiiiTg. Hookee and Aenott. Paenell. 



SiNCLAIE. DeAEIN. KoCII. GrliEVILLE. LiNDLEY. BaBINGTON. 



Knapp. Scheader. Host. Obder. Withering. Hull. Eelhan. 

 Abbot. Kunth. Maceeight. 



PLATE i,xv. — B. 



Tritioum hiflorum, Mitten. 



" alpirmm, Don. 



Elymus caninus, Linnjeus. Willdenow. 



'' " Leers. Ehehaet. 



Agropyrum caninum, Beauyais. Lindlbt. 



Tlie Fibrous-rooted Wheat- Grass. 



Triticum — Wheat. Caninum — Dog. 



The Fibrous-rooted Wheat-Grass, or Bearded Wheat-Grass, 

 is a valuable and early Grass. 



Growing usually in damp shady places, yet thriving when 

 cultivated in fields. 



Common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 



Native of Siberia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, 

 Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Trance, Spain, Portugal, and the 

 United States. 



Stem slender, upright, circular, and polished, having four 

 or five broad, lanceolate acute, dark green, shining leaves, 

 with smooth striated sheaths, upper one extending beyond 

 its leaf, and having a very brief blunt ligule at its apex 

 Inflorescence spiked. Spike lengthy and delicate. Spikelets oval, 

 sessile, placed in two rows on the zigzag rachis, and of four or 



