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violet-yellow. — \\"et places ; common, — Fl. April — Ajgusi. 

 Perennial. 



4. A. btdbosiis (Tuberous Foxtail). — V tufted, not glaucous, 

 form with the lower part of the ascending stem forming ovate 

 tubercles ; upper Icaf-sheath inflated ; spike » in. long, pointed , 

 gliiints not connate, acute, downy ■ flowering glume with sub-basal 

 awn twice as long as the 

 glume. — Salt marshes ; rare. — 

 Fl. May — July Perennial. 



5. A. prate iisis (Meadow 

 Fijxtail). — Stem i — j feet high, 

 erect, smooth, with runners ; 

 slwatlis cif upper leaves rather 

 l(iose ; spike r — 3 in. long, 

 blunt, soft, pale green ; glumes 

 acute, scarcely united at the 

 base, hairy ; awii twice as long 

 as the ftoweriug glume ; anthers 

 yellow-. — Rich pastures ; com^ 

 mon. — Fl. April — June. Pe- 

 rennial. 



6. A. alpiuus (,\lpme Fox- 

 tail). — An allied, but usually 

 shorter, species, with looser 

 sheaths to the upper leaves ; 

 spike seldom more than an 

 inch long, unless cultivated, 

 and softly silky with the rather 

 long hairs which cover the 

 acute, connate glumes. — By 

 streams on loftv Scottish 

 mountains. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



10. Milium (Millet-grass), ..j^^.^,^, g,,^;^^, (s/^^ajin^ Mrn.i.^-ass). 

 of which .1/. effusum (Spreading 



?*Iillet-grass) is the only British species, is a slender, erect, smooth 

 grass, I — 4 feet high ; with broad, flat, thm leaves; panicle long, 

 loose, spreading, and slender, its branches whorled ; spikehis 

 small, pale green, or purple, awnless ; iloKtriug glume smooth, 

 white, hardening round fruit. — Damp woods \ common. (Name 

 in Latin meaning millet.) 



1 1. Phlkum (Cat's-tail grass). — Panicle dense, cylindric, spike- 

 like of compressed, i-&o\\txcd spiltelets ; floweruig glume asvnless, 



