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5. F. panicle with branches on one side, nodding, nuuns. 

 scabrous ; spikelets ovate, compressed, generally 



6- flowered ; flowers acute, unawned ; leaves li- 

 near-lanceolate. WitUL 



Nodding- Fescue-grass. 



Two or three feet high. In woods common. Perennial. 

 June. 



6. F. culm triquetrous, or semi-terete, jointed, joints i mIM h r 

 pubescent or hairy above, cespitose. Leaves short, 

 distichal, lanceolate, striate, convolute at the apex- 

 Sheath long striate. Panicle terminal flexuose, 



and concealed at the base. Cat. 2-valved, valves 

 lanceolate nearly equal awnless, carinated, one 

 serrated at the apex. Cor, white 2-valved ? hairy, 

 one 3-nerved sub-bifid, the other hairy at the 

 apex- Stam. 3. Pist. 2, blackish plumous. Seed 

 oblong naked. Root long very slender. MuhU 



Short leaved Fescue-grass- 



Grows in and near water ; in Jersey not uncommon. Pe- 

 rennial. July. 



60. Bromis, Gen. pi. 120. (Gr amines.) 



Calix 2-valved, many-flowered. Spikelets ob- 

 long, distichaL Outer valves of the eorolla 

 often bifid at the point, and awned below the 

 summit ; interior glume peetinately ciliate. 

 JK'utt. 



1. B. panicle nodding ; spikelets ovate, compressed ; secaiinm. 

 glumes naked, distinct ; awns subulate, short, 

 straight. Sp, pi. 



Icon. Host. gram. 1. t. 12. (Pursh) 



Cheat. 



