536 THE GRASS FAMILY. 
about 2 lines. In some localities, however, the two forms run much 
one into the other. | 
5. F. uniglumis, Soland. (fig. 1230). One-glumed F.—A tufted 
annual, with convolute leaves like the last, but seldom above 6 inches 
high, and the leaf-sheaths much looser. Panicle 1-sided and spike- 
like, 2 inches long or rather more. Spikelets much crowded, on short 
erect pedicels, thickened at the top. Outermost glume reduced to a 
minute almost microscopic scale; the second lanceolate, 4 to 6 lines 
long, scarious on the edges, ending in an awn-like point. Flowering 
glumes 8 or 4, rather shorter, but ending in an awn usually longer 
than themselves. Vulpia uniglumis, Reichb. 
On sandy seacoasts, common round the Mediterranean and western 
Kurope. In British Isles, on the eastern coasts of Ireland, and western, 
_ southern, and south-eastern England, Fl. early summer. 
XXXII. DACTYLIS. COCK’S-FOOT. 
A single species, with all the characters of Festuca, except that the 
spikelets are densely crowded in thick, 1-sided clusters, arranged in 
an irregular short spike or slightly branched panicle. 
1. D. glomerata, Linn. (fig. 1231). Cock’s-foot Grass.—A coarse, 
stiff Grass, 1 to 2 feet high, the perennial stock forming at length dense 
tufts. Leaves flaccid, but rough on the edges. Clusters of spikelets 
dense and ovoid, sometimes collected into a close spike of about an 
inch, sometimes in a broken spike of several inches, or on the branches 
of a short, more or less spreading panicle. Hach spikelet much 
flattened, ovate, 3- to 5-flowered. Glumes lanceolate, strongly keeled, 
ciliated on the back and pointed at the top, the flowering ones more 
so than the outer ones, the point often lengthened into a short 
awn. 
In meadows, pastures, woods, and waste ground, throughout Europe, 
central and Russian Asia, except the extreme north. Abundant in 
Britain. Fl. the whole season. 
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XXXII. CYNOSURUS. DOG’S-TAIL. 
Spikelets in sessile clusters, forming a 1-sided spike or head, the 
outer spikelet of each cluster consisting of several glumes, all empty ; 
the other spikelets containing 2 to 5 flowers; the glumes pointed or 
awned as in Festuca. 
As now limited, the genus comprises but one Mediterranean species 
besides the two British ones. 
Spike semi-cylindrical. Glumes ped A : . . j . L. C. cristatus. 
Spike ovoid. Glumes awned : : . 2. C. echinatus. 
1. C. cristatus, Linn. (fig. 1232). Jone D.—A slightly tufted 
perennial, with short, narrow leaves, mostly radical, and a slender, 
often wiry erect stem, from under a foot to near 2 feet high. Flower- 
ing spike semi- cylindrical, oblong or nearly linear, 1 to 3 ‘Inches long ; 
the clusters regular, and all turned to one side; the outer elegantly 
