406 97. graminEjE. 



often pui-plish. Fl. distant. — fi. minor ; st. 2 — 3 in. high, 

 spikelets mostly 1-flowered. — Ponds and ditches. ^. Wet sea- 

 sands. P. VI. VII. 



40. Cynosurus Linn. Dog's-tail-grass. 



1. C. cristatus (L.); raceme spikelike linear, fl. with a very 

 short awn. — E. B. 316. P. 28. — Spike unilateral, plane-com- 

 pressed. Spikelets closely placed. Bract pectinate. — Pastures. 



P. vm. 



[2. C. echinahis (L.) ; raceme contracted close ovate, awns 

 about as long as the pales.— £. B. 1333. P. 28 and 129.— St. 

 erect, 1 — 2 feet high. Bract pectinate with long points. — Sandy 

 places in Guernsey and Jersey. A. VII.] 



41. Dactylis Linn. Cock's-foot-grass. 



1. D. glomerata (L.); pan.-branehes with ovate clusters of 

 spikelets, st. erect, 1. linear flat with scabrous margins, roots cas- 

 spitose. — E. B. 335. P. 2.9. — A coarse grass. Pan. -branches 

 long, spreading or divaricate with fl., afterwards adpressed, di- 

 stant ; each bearing an ovate cluster of spikelets ; or wanting, 

 and the panicle of one cluster. — Meadows. P. VI. VII. 



42. Festuca Linn. Fescue-grass. 



* Root-leaves very narrow. Ligule with round auricles. 

 Awn terminal. 



t Usually monandrous. Awn longer than the pale. Gl. very 

 unequal. Vulpia. 



1. F. uniglumis (Sol.) ; raceme 2-ranked secund close, lower 

 gl. very small, fl. compressed keeled. — E. B. 1430. P. 112. — 

 St. 6 — 12 in. high, erect, leafy nearly to the top. Raceme close. 

 Lower gl. usually scarcely distinguishable. — Sandy sea-shores. 

 A. VI. E. I. 



2. F. sciuroides (Roth) ; st. mostly naked above, pan. erect- 

 patent short, lower branches often equalling 4 the panicle, upper 

 gl. equalling the lowest fl., fl. terete scabrous. — F. bromoides Sua., 

 E. B. 1411. — Slender, 6 — 12 in. high. L. linear, involute. — ■ 

 Walls and sandy places. A. ? VI. VII. 



3. F. myurus (L.) ; st. usually leafy to the arcuate long narrow 

 pan., lower branches short, upper gl. falling short of the lowest 

 fl., fl. terete scabrous. — E. B. 1412. F. pseudo-myurus Soy.-Will. 

 — Known from the preceding, to which it is very closely allied. 



