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GRAMINE^ 



notched, with awns 2 or 4 times as lonj> as the glumes, from 



below their tips ; flowering glu>j?e shorter a'nd more shortly awncd. 



(Name from the Greek polus, many, pogou,, beard, from the long 



awns.) 



I. P. monspelicnsis (Annual Beard-grass). — .V very beautiful 



species, procumbent at base, or rarely erect, i — i^ foot high; 



sieijis stout, smooth ; leaves large, broad, *rpugh ; panicle i — 6 in. 



long, densej lobed, of a yellowish 

 shining green, silky ; glumes blunt, 

 less than half as long as the awns ; 

 flowering glume awnless. — Damp 

 pastures in the south-eastern coun- 

 ties ; rare, s — Fl. June — August. 

 Annual. 



2. P. Utiordlis (Perennial Beard- 

 grass). — Nearly allied, variable in 

 size, sometimes several feet in 

 height ; panicle simaller, more 

 branched, purplish ; glumes longer, 

 tapering uito an awn scarcely longer 

 than the glilme itself. — Salt marshes 

 on the south-east coast ; rare, — Fl. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



15. Calamagrustis (Small-reed). 

 — Tall grasses with spreading, some- 

 what i-sided panicles of i-fiowered 

 spikelels ; flowering glume awned, 

 with a tuft 6f long, silky hairs on the 

 rachilla at its base. F)istmguisbed 

 from the true reed (Pliragmiles) by 

 the T-tlowered spikelets. (Name 

 from the Greek kalamos, reed, 

 agri'istis, grass.) 



I. C. cpigejos (Wood Small- 

 recd). — Sleni 3 — 5 feet high, stout, 

 erect ; leaves long, acummate, rough, glaucous beneath ; panicle 

 branched, but not spreading except when in full flower, 4 — 12 in. 

 long, with numerous crowded, purplish spikelels : flo'd'eiing glume 

 with very short and slender awn from* about the middle. — In 

 moist open places in woods ; not generally common. One of the 

 handsomest grasses. — VI. June — August. Perennial. 



2. C. canesceiis (Purple Small-reed). — A tall grass, 2 — 4 feet 

 high, reseml)ling the preceding, but slender ; leaves narrower and 



CALAMAr.RUSTlS EPIGl^JOS 



{Wood SitiaU-}xed). 



