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THE GKAiSS FAMILY. 



A high northern plant, extending 

 from east Arctic Europe across Arctic 

 Asia and America, and reappearing in 

 the Antarctic regions. In Britain, it 

 occurs in the higher mountains of Scot- 

 land, although unknown in Scandinavia. 

 Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1160. 



X. CHAMAGROSTIS. CHAMAGROSTIS. 



A single species, differing from Agrostis chiefly in the inflorescence, 

 which is a simple spike nearer that of the Hordeinece, although the spike- 

 lets are not closely sessile enough to remove it to that tribe. 



1. Dwarf Chamagrostis. Chamagrostis minima, Borkh. 



(Fig. 1161.) 



(Knappia agrostidea, Eng. Bot. t. 1127.) 



A little, tufted annual, seldom 3 inches 

 high. Leaves short and narrow, with 

 very thin sheaths. Spikelets small, pur- 

 plish, 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. 



In sandy pastures, and waste places, 

 in western Europe, not extending in 

 central Europe much to the eastward 

 of the Hhine, although in the south 

 it reaches as far as Greece. Rare in 



