ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS. 



MEADOW FOXTAIL. 



Boots fibrous, rootstock perennial. Stems 1 to 3 

 feet, erect and smooth. Leaves flat and scabrid ; 

 sheath smooth and longer than its leaf; ligule large 

 and truncate. Panicle spike-like, cylindrical, and ob- 

 tuse. Spikelets one-flowered, and laterally compressed. 

 Empty glumes larger than flowering glumes, hairy 

 on the keel, awnless. Flowering glumes with straight 

 awn inserted at the middle of the back. Palea none. 

 Flowers from the middle of April to June. Grows 

 in meadows and pastures throughout Europe, North 

 Africa, Siberia, and North-western India. 



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