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"Seed" The outer palea is 4-5 mm. long, of a pale straw 

 colour, tinged with red, and usually smooth. Rachilla cylindrical, 

 smooth, and enlarged above. In some forms the palea may be 

 6 mm. long, and the outer palea and rachilla rough or hairy. The 

 awn-point varies considerably in length in different forms but it 

 never exceeds half the length of the outer palea. (Figs. 107 and 

 108.) 



Fig. 106. " Seed" of Festuca 

 ovina var. duriuscula. x 10. 

 Front and back views. 



Fig. 107. "Seed" of 

 Festuca rubra var. 

 genuina. x 10. 



Fig. 108. "Seed" 

 of Festuca rubra 

 Ydr.falla.Y. x 10. 



Festuca sylvatica, Vill. (Reed Fescue.) 



Festuca sylvatica is thinly scattered over the British Isles — 

 chieflv in moist mountain woods. The leaf-blacles are broad, 

 acute and rough. Flowering culm from 2 to 3 feet high. Panicle 

 lax, of long slightly drooping branches. Spikelets 3-5 flowered. 

 Glumes very narrow. Outer palea three-nerved, acute, but not 

 awned. (Fig. 109.) 



Glyceria aquatica, Sm. (Reed Sweet-grass.) (Figs. 90 and 110.) 



A large aquatic perennial, entirely glabrous, though very harsh 

 to the touch, chiefly found by the side of streams, ditches, etc. 



