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FESTUCA SYLVATICA. 



Villars. Hooker and Arnott. Schrader. Host. Babington. 



KuNTH. MaCREIGHT. 

 PLATE XLIX. 



Poa sylvatiea, Pollich. Parnell. 



" trinevata, Ehrhart. Schrader. Wjlldenow. 



" " Oeder. 



Fesfuca calamaria, Smith. Hooker. Knapp. Wade. 



Schedonorus sylvalicus, Lindlet. 



The Reed Fescue Grass. 



Festuca — ? Sylvatiea — The wood. 



A somewhat rare Grass, of which cattle are extremely fond, 

 Found in damp woods. In England procured in Westmorland. 

 Worcester, and Sussex; occasionally in Scotland and Ireland. 



Found in France and Germany. 



Stem somewhat harsh, circular, slender, and erect; carrying 

 three or four broad, flat, rough, ribbed, pale green leaves, with 

 rough striated sheaths; upper one extending beyond its leaf, 

 and having at its apex an obtuse membranous ligule; the other 

 sheaths shorter than their leaves. Joints four, the upper two 

 naked. Inflorescence compound-panicled. Panicle spreading, in 

 some degree pendulous. Branches slender, and situated in pairs 

 on the rachis. Spikelets many, small, of three awnless florets. 

 Calyx of two narrow, acute, membranous glumes, destitute of 

 lateral ribs. Florets of two equal-sized palea?, exterior one of 

 basal floret rough, acute, three-ribbed, the dorsal rib serrated. 



