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violet-yellow. — Wet places ; common. — Fl. April — August. 

 Perennial. 



4. A. bulbosus (Tuberous Foxtail). — A tufted, not glaucous, 

 form with the lower part of the ascending stem forming ovate 

 tubercles ; upper leaf-sheath inflated ; spike 1 in. long, pointed ; 

 glumes not connate, acute, downy ; flowering glume with sub-basal 

 awn twice as long as the 

 glume. — Salt marshes ; rare. 

 Fl. May — July Perennial. 



5. A. pratensis (Meadow 

 Foxtail). — Stem 1 — 2 feet high, 

 erect, smooth, with runners ; 

 sheaths of upper leaves rather 

 loose; spike 1—3 in. long, 

 blunt, soft, pale green ; glumes 

 acute, scarcely united at the VA X 

 base, hairy ; awn twice as long ** J ~*^. \ y 

 as the flowering glume ; anthers 

 yellow. — Rich pastures ; com- 

 mon. — Fl. April — June. Pe- 

 rennial. 



6. A. alpinus (Alpine Fox- 

 tail). — An allied, but usually 

 shorter, species, with looser 

 sheaths to the upper leaves ; 

 spike seldom more than an 

 inch long, unless cultivated, 

 and softly silky with the rather 

 long hairs which cover the 

 acute, connate glumes. — By 

 streams on lofty Scottish 

 mountains. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



Mfi.iUM eff6sum {Spreading Millet-grass). 



10. Milium (Millet-grass), 

 of which M . effusum (Spreading 

 Millet-grass) is the only British species, is a slender, erect, smooth 

 grass, 1 — 4 feet high; with broad, flat, thin leaves; panicle long, 

 loose, spreading, and slender, its branches whorled ; spikelets *• 

 small, pale green, or purple, awnless ; flowering glume smooth, 

 white, hardening round fruit. — Damp woods ; common. (Name 

 in Latin meaning millet.) 



1 1 . Phl£um (Cat's-tail grass). — Panicle dense, cylindric, spike- 

 like, of compressed, 1 -flowered spikelets; flowering glume awnless, 



