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98. GEAMINE.E. 
6. Chamageos'tis Borkh. 
1. C. minima {^ovkh..).— Knappia Sm. E. B. 1127. P. 73. 
Sturmia Hoppe in St. 7. 1. Mihora minima (Desv.). — An 
elegant but very small grass. Root small, fibrous. St. many. 
L. short, rough. Spikes slender ; spikelets 5 — 10, sessile. 
Pale shorter than the glumes, hairy, truncate, ragged. — Sandy 
south-west coast of Anglesea. A. IV. E. 
Tribe III. Plmlaridece. 
7. Phal'aris Linn. em. Beauv. Reed-grass. 
[/". canarien'sis (L.) ; pan. ovoid spikelike, gl. innged on the 
heel, wing entire, rudimentary fi. 2 half as long as the fertUe fl., 
pales pilose. — E. B. 1310. P. 9. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, ending in 
a compact compound panicle. Gl. large, pale yellow variegated 
with green lines and remarkably winged at the back. — Scarcely 
naturalized. A. VII. Canary-grass?\ 
[P. minor (Retz.); pan. cylindric-oblong spikelike, gl. winged on the upper 
part of the keel, wing toothed n(ar the apex, rudivuntory fi. 1 narrow pilose 
J as long as the fertile fl., lower pale pilose quite enclosing the upper, upper much 
narrower and shorter ciliate on the keel. — J. of B. xxxviii. (1900) p. 33, t. 406. — 
St. with a single spike. More slender than the last, with longer narrower pan., 
much smaller and more numerous fl., and narrower, toothed, keel to the gl.— 
Channel I., perhaps native. A. VII.] 
[P. paradox'a (L.) ; pan. spikelike, gl. of fertile fl. with a 
hlunt toothed iving on the heel many-veined, rudimentary fl. 
several. — St. decumbent below, then ascending, 1 — 3 ft. high, 
branched. Lower part of pan. usually barren ; branches with 
about 6 spikes. — Swanage, Dorset. A. VII.] E. 
1. P. arundindcea (L.) ; pan. upright with spreading 
branches, fl. clustered, gl. not winged, rudimentary fl. 1 or 2 
small hairy. — E. B. 402. P. 9. — St. 4 — 5 feet high. Creeping. 
Pan. 3—4 in. long. Gl. keeled. L. sometimes variegated with 
white lines.— By water. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
8. Anthoxan'thum Linn, em., Beauv. Vernal-grass. 
1. A. adordtum (L.) : pan. spikelike dense oblong, gl. about 
equalling awns, st. nearly .simple below. — E. B. 647. P. 8. — 
About a foot high. Panicle lanceolate, dense, or rather inter- 
rupted below. — There are two forms or species : (1) with 
purple anth. in meadows, (2) with dull yellow anth. in woods. 
— Very common in pastures. P. V. VI. E. S. I. 
