graminej:. 



965 



edges. Panicle contracted into a close, 

 narrow-cylindrical spike, 5 or 6 inches 

 long, tapering to the top. Spikelets 

 crowded, 4 or 5 lines long, the outer 

 glumes lanceolate, compressed, stiff, and 

 chaffy. Flowering glume rather shorter, 

 but equally stiff, with a tuft of hairs out- 

 side on the axis of the spikelet. Palea 

 nearly as long, with a minute hairy 

 bristle, or prolongation of the axis at its 

 base. 



On maritime sands, common on all the 

 coasts of Europe, except the extreme 

 north, and in North America. Frequent 

 in Britain and on the British seacoasts. 

 Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1170. 



XVI. SMALLREEB. CALAMAGROSTIS. 



Tall grasses, with a more or less open panicle, and numerous 1- 

 flowered spikelets. Outer glumes nearly equal, keeled and pointed. 

 Flowering glume much smaller, very thin, with a very slender and short, 

 hair-like, straight awn on its back, and a tuft of long silky hairs at its 

 base, on the axis of the spikelet. Palea usually smaller. 



A considerable genus, widely distributed over the globe, formerly 

 united with the true Reeds, from which it is distinguished chiefly by 

 the 1-flowered spikelets. 



Hairs within the spikelet longer than the flowering glume. 

 Spikelets near 3 lines long, crowded in a narrow panicle. 



Outer glumes very narrow, almost subulate . . . . 1. Wood S. 

 Spikelets about 2 lines long, in a loose panicle. Outer 



glumes narrow-lanceolate • . . . 2. Purple S. 



Hairs within the spikelet shorter than the flowering glume . 3. Narrow S. 



1. Wood Smallreed. Calamagrostis Epigeios, Both. 



(Fig. 1171.) 



(Arundo, Eng. Bot. t. 403.) 

 Eootstock creeping. Stems 3 or 4 feet high, erect, and rather firm, 



