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GRAMfNEjE 



membranous, nearly equal ; flowerini; olwne and pale leathery, 

 closely invesling tlie fruit. (Name from the Greek phalos, white, 

 applied by Dioscorides to some plant with shining fruit.) 



r.* P. cauariensis (Canary-grass). — An erect, leafy plant, 2 — 3 

 feet high, glaucous ; spikelets densely crowded into an ovoid 

 panicle, 1 — I o- in. long; glumes very flat, acute, but not awned, 

 winged on the keel, pale yellow, with a broad green line down 



PH.\T.ARI^ CANARlt.vsis {C ana}y-r7'a::s). PHALARfs akundikace.v {KLi-Lt^>-asi)^ 



each side. — A casual escape. Much cultivated as canarv-seed in 

 central and southern Europe. — Fl. June-^August. Annual. 



2.* P. paradoxa, a branched plant, i — ^5 feet high, with a spike- 

 like painde, and glumes with a toothed wing on the keel and many- 

 veined, has occurred, probably only casually, at Swanage, Dorset. 

 — y\. July. Annual. 



3. P. aniji Jijuuca (l<<ted-gms\i). — A glabrous plant, with creep- 

 ing ruot-stuc/: ; stems 2 — 6 feet high; leaves with large ligules • 



