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purplish ; leaves short, 



graceful species; stems 2 — 12 in. high, bent below, rough, often 

 bvistle-like, blunt, with rough sheaths; 

 panicle i — ^2 in. long, very spreading, 

 with long, .triply forked branches. — 

 Dry places ; common. — Fl. June, 

 July. Annual. 



6. A. pf<ecrix (JLnrly Hair-grass). — 

 A similar but smaller species, not 

 more than. 6 in. high, greener, with 

 smooth leaj-slieatlis and a close, 

 oblong, spike-like panicle, I — i in. 

 long, with short branches, — Dry 

 places ; common. — Fl. April, May. 

 Annual. 



21. Coryni':pii(iku.s, 

 caiiesceiis (Grey Hair-; 

 only British species, 

 slender plant, less 



of which C . 

 grass) is the 

 is a tufted, 

 than a foot 

 high, with numerous short, bristle- 

 like, glau(;ous leaves with rough 

 sheaths ; p'ajiicle rather dense, i -3 

 in. long, s'preading in flower, with 

 short branches ; spikelets variegated 

 with purple and white ; eihinies with 

 slender, tralisparent tips ; flojcering 

 glume shorter, with a bent, sub-basal 

 awn, beaixled at the joint, and 

 thickening into a club-shaped tip ; 

 ant/iers purple ; jritil grooved, adnate 

 to the flowering glume and pale. — 

 Sandy coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and 

 the Channel Islands. — Fl. June, 

 July, rercimial. (Xame from the 

 Greek kunincphnros, a mace-bearer.) 



22. HoLCus (Soft-grass). — Spike- 

 lels numerous, much compressed 

 laterally, in an open panicle, 2- 

 flowered ; lower /Inicer iierfect, awn- 

 less ; upper staminate, with a twisted 

 dorsal awn to its q-iurved Jlo'tCcriiia 

 ?/»/»(•. (Nahie said to be from the 



Greek /;o/A'M, connected with helkn, I dnnv, rcterruig to a supposed 



power of drawing thorns out of the flesh.) 



I.cus MciLLis (Creeping Stiff-i^'i- 



