GRASS FAMILY 



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smoother ; par.ide looser, 5 or 6 in. long, drooping at the tip, 

 shining purple ; ficwering glume notched with a very short terminal 

 awn. — Wet places ; rare.— Fl. June— August. Perennial, 



3. C, ilrigosa, found in 1S85 by Robert Dick, the baker 

 naturalist of Thurso, in Caithness, has larger spikdets and more 

 acuminate glumes than the following. It is a northern type. 



4. C. neglecta (Narrow Small-recd). — Stem 'erect, i — 3 feet high, 

 slender, polished; leaves short, stiff, with 

 short ligules ; panicle 2 — 6 in. long, narrow, 

 erect, close, pale purplish, and green ; glumes 

 acute, longer than the hairs ; flowering glume 

 shorter, with awn inserted rather below thej 

 middle. — Bogs in Cheshire and Antrim ; 

 rare. — Fl. Tune, July. Perennial. 



16. Gajtrilhu.m (Xit-grass), of which G. 

 lendigeriim (Awned Nit-grass) is the only? 

 species, is an elegant, erect grass, 6 — r2 in. 

 high, with rout;h-edged flat leaves and a' 

 tapering spike-like panicle 1 — 3 in. long, pale; 

 green with silvery lustre, and is easily dis- 

 tinguished from other British grasses by the 

 peculiar glossy, swollen base of the outer* 

 glumes. — Fields near the sea that are occasion-' 

 ally overflowed, in the south ; rare. (Name 

 from the Greek gastridion, a swelling.) — Fl. 

 June — October. Annual. 



17. Apera (Wind-grass). — Annual grasses 

 with panicles of small, shining, i -flowered 

 spikelets ; outer glumes 2, membranous, acute," 

 awnless, the lower the smaller ; flowering, 

 glume shorter, slightly 2-fid, with a long, 

 slender, subterminal awn. (Name from the* 

 Greek aperos, undivided.) 



1. A. Spica-venii (Silky Wind-grass). — One 

 of the handsomest of grasses, 2 — 3 feet high, 

 with rather narrow, flat leaves ; panicle 3 in. long, spreading, with 

 very slender branches, and liitle shining spikehts hardly a line long ; 

 awn 3 or 4 times as long as the spikelet : anthers linear. — Sandy 

 fields; rare. — Fl, June. Jul}-, Annual. 



2. A. mterrupta, with a close panicle, the, branches of which 

 never spread, and short, oval anthers, occurs, farely in the eastern 

 counties, — Fl, June, July, — Annual, 



iS. Ammophila (Marram-grass). — ^PanzJe- spike-like ; spikelets 

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