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GRAMINE.'E 



flowering glumes with a slender, bent, dorsal awn, (Name from 

 the Greek alopex, fox, nura, tail.) 



I. A. myosuroide- (Black-grass Slender Foxtail). — Stem erect, 

 rough, I — 2 feet high -, leaves with a large, blunt ligule ; spik^ 2 — 

 3 in. long, slender, flexuous, more pointed than in the other 

 species ; glumes acute, united to ahout the middle, nearly smooth. 

 — .\ troublesome weed in England.-^^Fl. April — November. 

 Annual 



AI.OPliCUKUS 1\1 YO.SUROTDi:S 



{SU'idi^j' Foxtail-gTaxs). 



ALOPECI^IRUS GENICUL \TUS 



i^hloaihig Foxtail). 



2. A. cequdlis (Orange-spiked Foxtail). — A glaucous plant; stem 

 ascenduig, bent at the nodes, 1 — 2 feet high ; leaj-sheallis rather 

 inflated ; ligule oblong ; spike 2 — 3 in. long, pale ; glumes united 

 below, ciliate ; anthers short, broad, at first wliite, then orange. — 

 Ditches in the midland and southern counties , rare. — V\. lune — 

 Se[)tember. Perennial. 



3. A. geiiieuldlus (Marsh or Floating Foxtail). — .\. closely allied, 

 not glaucous species ; hiij-slicatlis cylinclric ; spi!;e i — 2 in. long, 

 blunt ; glumes connate, blunt, ciliate ; 'flowering glume with a 

 sub-basal awn, half as long again as the glume ; anthers linear. 



