514 THE GRASS FAMILY. [ Alopecuris. 
above a line long, the hair-like awns not projecting above a line beyond 
them. : 
In moist meadows, and marshy places, throughout Europe and tem- 
perate Asia from the Mediterranean to the Arctic regions, and naturalized 
in other parts of the globe. Abundant in Britain. Fl. all summer. A 
slight variety, with still shorter awns, has been described under the name 
of A. fulvus, Sm.; and in some localities, especially near the sea, the stems 
thicken at the base into a kind of bulb, which state has also been distin- 
guished as a species, under the name of 4. bulbosus, Gouan. 
4, 4. alpinus, Sm. (fig. 1175). Alpine Foxtail.—Rootstock creeping 
and stems erect, as in A. pratensis, but usually not so tall, and the sheaths 
of the upper leaves looser. Spike ovoid or shortly cylindrical, seldom above 
an inch long unless cultivated, and softly silky with the rather long hairs 
which cover the glumes. Spikelets closely imbricated, 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. 
El, summer, 
X. CHAMAGROSTIS. CHAMAGROSTIS. 
A single species, differing from Agrostis chiefly in the inflorescence, 
which is a simple spike nearer that of the Hordeinea, although the spike- 
lets are not closely sessile enough to remove it to that tribe. 
1. ©. minima, Borkh. (fig. 1176). Dwarf Chamagrostis.—A little, 
tufted annual, seldom 3 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 sometimes none. 
Knappia agrostidea, Sm. Mibora verna, Adans. 
In sandy pastures, and waste places, in western Europe, not extending 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. FF. 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. 1177). Ovate Hare’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 
