Kcehleria.] gramine/e. 591 



glumes inserted near the base of the palea, leaves setaceous. Sm. 

 E. Fl. i. p. 104. Br. Fl. p. 527. Lind. Syn. p. 308. E. B. 

 xxii. t. 1519. Host. Gram. Aust. ii. 33, t. 43. Parn. Gr. tt. 23, 

 107. 



On dry hilly and heathy ground ; but seldom. Fl. June, July. !(.. 



E. Med. — At Apse castle, near Shanlilin, pretty abundantly. On St. George's 

 down. On Royal heath, Albert Hambrough, Esq. 



About 12 ov 18 inches in height, growing in dense tufts. Root of many 

 whitish, sometimes woolly, fibres. Cvlms erect, round, slender, quite smooth, leafless 

 in their upper half. Leaves short, the lower ones in small bundles arising from a 

 sheath at the base of the culm, setaceous; stem-leaves a little broader, with invo- 

 lute overlapping edges and very long close sheaths, all smooth except a slight 

 roughness along the edges near their tips. Ligule short, obtuse, cloven. Pani- 

 cle loose, of several erecto-patent, slender, smoothish and reddish branches, doubly 

 and triply subdivided into capillary ramifications, which, with the main branches, 

 are more or less waved or flexuose, whence the specific name. Spikelets of a 

 mixed white and reddish colour, as if partially bleached. Glumes nearly equal, 

 chaffy, finely pointed, with a single keel-like rib not reaching to the apex, tinged 

 with purple at their base. Florets 2 (seldom 3, Koch and Alert.), seated in a tuft 

 of short hairs, one of them on a minute pedicel. Palece like the glumes in shape 

 and colour, and about equal to them in length ; outer one 4-ribbeci, with a rough- 

 ish awn, nearly double its own length, inserted on the back of the valve just above 

 the base. Scale deeply cloven, with acute diverging lobes, as long as the ger- 

 men. Styles distant, feathery. 



The much larger size, deeper colour, short blunt ligule, and perennial root, will 

 always prevent this being confounded with the preceding species, which is, 

 besides, a much earlier plant than the present. 



4. A. ccsspitosa, L. Turfy Hair-grass. "Panicle diffuse, 

 branches scabrous, glumes slightly rough on the midrib, upper 

 8-ribbed, florets hairy at the base rather longer than the glumes, 

 awn straight inserted near the base of and seldom exceeding in, 

 length the outer glumella." — Br. Fl. p. 526. E. B. t. 1453. 

 Host. Gram. Aust. ii. 31, t. 42. 



In moist shady places, woods and copses ; plentiful. Fl. June — August. 1(... 



E. Med. — In Quarr copse, Apley woods, and elsewhere about Hyde. 



W. Med. — Abundant in woods at Yarmouth. 



The leaves are remarkably rough on their upper side, with numerous deep fur-, 

 rows, the intermediate ridges being armed with innumerable minute saw-like 

 prickles, offering great resistance to the fingers when drawn along the leaf in a, 

 contrary direction to their points. Might not this roughness be employed ia 

 polishing turnery and metal wares, instead of the imported Dutch Bushes {Eqvi-. 

 setum hytmale) ? 



XIII. Kcehleria, Pers. Kcehleria, 



" Panicle spiked, rounded. Spikelets laterally compressed, dis-> 

 tichous, -with two or more perfect florets. Glumes 2, unequal^ 

 membranaceous, shorter than the florets. Glumellas 2, membra- 

 naceous, naked at the base ; outer one keeled, entire, pointed or 

 with a straight subterminal bristle. Caryopsis free." — Br. Fl. 



1. K. cristata, Pers. Crested Kcehleria. " Panicle interrupted 

 below, outer glumella acute 3-ribbed, leaves narrow ciliated on. 



