66 TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



teneiia. l. F. panicle simple, leaning one way ; spikelets ge- 

 nerally 8-flowered, avvned. Sp. pi. 

 Festuca octoflora, Walt. 

 F. bromoides, Mich. 



An upright, simple-stemmed little grass, about nine or ten 

 inches high, with the panicle leaning to one side. Near Cam- 

 den in the sandy grass-lawns bordering the woods frequent ; 

 and in the neighbourhood of Woodbury along all the roads 

 running through dry sandy woods, abundant. When old it 

 assumes a deep brown colour. Annual. May. 



myurus. 2. F. panicle slender, appressed ; spikelets 4-flower- 

 ed, awned, hairy ; flowers monandrous. Elliot. 

 F. quadriflora, Walt. 



Hairy -flowered Festuca. 



A small, slender grass, from 1£ to 4 inches high, generally 

 found growing with Aira prsecox, in the sandy soils of Jersey. 

 Not rare. Biennial. June. 



Huitan*. 3. F. panicle long, loose, branches simple, spikelets 

 adpressed, round-linear many-flowered, flosculi 

 awnless striate, culm decumbent, leaves very 

 glabrous. Willd. 

 Icon. Eng. bot. 1520. 



River- Festuca. 



In ditches and purling rivulets in Jersey, about ten miles 

 south-east of this city, and somewhat east of Woodbury. Pe- 

 rennial. June. 



eiatioi-. 4. F. panicle somewhat diffuse, nutant, very much 

 branched, loose ; spikelets ovate-lanceolate acute, 

 flosculi cylindric obsolete!) 7 nerved. Smith. 

 F. pratensis, Willd. 



Icon. Engl. bot. 1593. 



Tall Fescue-grass. 



In meadows and moist low grounds, every where common. 

 Yields fine fodder. Perennial. Beginning of July. 



