516 THE GRASS FAMILY. 
rather smaller than in A. pratensis ; the awns either included within the 
outer glumes or scarcely projecting beyond them. 
A high northern plant, extending from east Arctic Europe across 
Arctic Asia and America, and reappearing in South Chili. In Britain, 
it occurs in the higher mountains of Scotland, although unknown in 
Scandinavia. Fl, swmmer. 
X. MIBORA. MIBORA. 
_ A single species, differing from Agrostis chiefly in the inflorescence, 
which is a simple spike nearer that of the Hordeinee, although the 
spikelets are not closely sessile enough to remove it to that tribe. 
1. M. verna, Adans. (fig. 1179). Mibora.—A little, tufted annual, 
seldom 8 inches high. Leaves short and narrow, with very thin 
sheaths. Spikelet small, purplish, almost sessile in a simple slender 
spike about half an inch long. Outer glumes nearly equal, obtuse, 
about a line long. Flowering glume shorter, very thin and scarious, 
hairy outside, jagged at the top, but not awned. Palea small or some- 
times none. "Knappia agrostidea, Sm. Chamagrostis minima, Bork. 
In sandy pastures, and waste places, in western Europe, not extend- 
ing in central Europe much to the eastward of the Rhine, although in 
the south it reaches as far as Greece. Rare in Britain, and apparently 
confined to the coasts of Anglesea and the Channel Islands. Fl. spring. 
XI. LAGURUS. HARE’S-TAIL. 
A single species, with the characters nearly of Calamagrostis, except 
the inflorescence, which is condensed into an ovoid, softly hairy head 
or spike as in Alopecurus. 
1. L. ovatus, Linn. (fig. 1180). Haze’s-tail—An erect annual, from 
a few inches to above a foot high; the leaves hoary with a soft down, 
their sheaths rather swollen. Spikelets 1-flowered, very numerous, and 
closely crowded into an ovoid or oblong, softly hairy head, 4 to 1 inch 
long. Outer glumes subulate or slightly dilated at the base, about 4 
lines long, feathered with long soft hairs. Flowering glume much 
shorter, and thin, cleft into 2 awn-like points about the length of the 
outer glumes, and bearing on its back a long, hair-like, bent awn, 
usually at least twice the length of the spikelet. 
In maritime sands, and waste places, common all round the Medi- 
terranean, and extending up the west coast of Europe to Guernsey ; 
also found, but not wild, in Suffolk. Fl. early summer. 
XII. POLYPOGON. BEARDGRASS. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, densely crowded in a spike-like or slightly 4 
branched panicle, the pedicel articulate below the glumes. Outer 
glumes ending in a fine, straight awn. Flowering glume thinner and 
smaller, with a fine twisted and bent or minute and straight ARNO ina 
terminal notch, or on the back. 
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