DACTYLIS.—FESTUCA. 395 
awn.—E, B. 316. P.28.—Marked by its unilateral spike and 
curious crested appendage to the spikelets, which is sometimes 
viviparous.—Pastures. P. VIII. Crested Dog’s-tail-grass. 
2. C. echinatus (L.); raceme contracted close ovate, fl. with 
awns about as long as the pales.—Z. B. 1333. P. 28 and 129.— 
St. erect, 1—2 feet high. Scales of the appendage with long. 
points. — Sandy places in the extreme south, very rare. Guernsey 
and Jersey. A. VII. E.? 
40. Dactyuis Linn. 
1. D. glomerata (L.); branches of pan. with ovate clusters of 
spikelets, st. erect, |. linear flat with scabrous margins, root cz- 
spitose.—E. B. 335. P.29.—A coarse well-known grass. Panicle 
usually with long spreading or divaricated distant branches each 
bearing an ovate cluster of spikelets ; sometimes the branches are 
wanting, and then the whole inflorescence consists of one of 
these clusters—Meadows. P. VI. VII. Cock’s-foot-grass. 
41. Frsruca Linn. 
* Root leaves very narrow. Awn terminal. Vuurtra. 
1. F. uniglumis (Sol.) ; raceme 2-ranked secund, lower gl. very 
minute, fl. compressed keeled shorter than their awns.—E. B. 
1430. P.112.—St. 6—12 in. high, erect, leafy nearly to the top. 
Raceme close. Lower gl. usually scarcely distinguishable — 
Sandy sea-shores. A. vi E. 1. 
2. F. bromoides (L.); panicle secund, gl. very unequal, fi. 
terete shorter than their awns scabrous.—St. 6—8 in. high, more 
or less leafy. Lower gl. always shorter than the upper, often very 
small; upper gl. equalling lowest floret.—a. F. bromoides (L.): 
flowering panicle erect-patent. Z.B.1411. Lower branches of 
the panicle often equalling half its length.—8. F. pseudo-myurus 
(Soy.-Will.) ; flowering panicle narrow spikelike nodding at the 
end. F. Myurus Sm., E.B.1412.not Linn. Lower branches of 
the panicle always very short. Perhaps distinct—Dry waste 
places. A.? VI. VII. 
3. F. ovina (L.); panicle close subsecund, spikelets of about 
6 fl. mostly with awns of half their length, /. all involute-seta- 
ceous, ligule bilobed, root fibrous cxespitose.—E. B.585. P. 56, 
57.—Very variable. L. short, slightly curved, tufted. Root 
ceespitose, not truly creeping. Fl. with short awns, glabrous, or 
glumes and outer pales hairy. Mr. Woods finds “ a slender creep- 
ing rhizome.”—f. vivipara ; spikelet converted into a leafy shoot. 
E. B. 1355.—y. tenuifolia; 1. very long setaceous, fl. without 
awns, sometimes viviparous.—d. duriuscula; flowering panicle 
pyramidal, branches almost divaricated, lowermost sheath pubes- 
