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FESTUCA UNIGLUMIS. 



SoLANDEH. HoOKEE AND AENOTT. SMITH. PaENELL. KOCH. 

 KlJNTH. WlTHEEING. F/ABINGTON. 



Knapp. Dickson. Raws. Macbeight. Deakin. 



plate xlviii. 



Vulpia uniglumis, Lindley. Dumort. 



Lolium bromoides, Hudson. Withering. HuLt. 



Stipa membranacea, Linn^us. Mant. 



The Single-glumed Fescue Grass. 



Festuea — ? Uuiglumis — Single-glumed. 



This Grass, which has no agricultural merits, grows in arid 

 sandy situations, chiefly in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 sea. 



Found in Ireland and Anglesea. In Suffolk, Sussex, Essex, 

 Dorset, and Devon. Abroad in France, Germany, Italy, and 

 Switzerland. 



Stem upright and slender, bearing three or four small, narrow, 

 involute leaves, with smooth striated sheaths; upper sheath 

 extending considerably beyond its leaf. Joints three. Inflores- 

 cence racemed, subsecund. Spikelets of two glumes and five or 

 six florets. Glumes exceedingly unequal; inner one long and 

 narrow ; exterior one almost obsolete. Florets of two palens ; 

 exterior one of basal floret of same length as the large glume; 

 five-ribbed, and ending in a lengthened rough awn. Styles 

 two. Filaments three, capillary; stigmas plumose; anthers 

 notched at either extremity. Root annual and fibrous. Length 

 from ten to fifteen inches. 



