490 98. GEAMINE.!. 
straight awn from below the middle of the pale and scarcely 
extending beyond it, 1. of the barren shoots slender. — C. 
neglecta (Gaertn. M. i S.).— ^. 2160.— St. erect, 2—3 ft. 
high. L. broad ; on the barren shoots much narrower. Upper- 
most ligule short, blunt : longer and acute in the Irish plant, var. 
i/ooA:erzSy.,whichhasshorter pan. -branches. — Bogs. Oakmere, 
Cheshire. By Loch Tay, \_iir G. C. Bruce. Referred to var. iortalis 
by Prof. Hackei.l Formerly found near Forfar. Lough Neagh. 
P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
4. C. strig"sa (Hartm.); pan. close, gl. lanceolate folding at the tip into a long 
acuminate point asperous on the back with 1 — 2 lateral ribs much exceeding the 
pales, pales deeply jagged at the tip, lower with awn equalling it attached below 
the middle sometimes near the base, hairs very unequal falling short of the 
pales, 1. slender.— C«spitose. St. erect, li— 2 ft. or more high. Tonng spikes 
variegated with purple. Upper ligule long. More slender than Sp. 3, with 
conspicuously longer gl.— Site of Loch Duran, Caithness. Mr E. Dick. P. VII. 
S. 
20. Ape'ka Beaiiv. Wind-grass. 
1. A. Spica-ven'ti (Beauv.) ; pan. spreading, anth. linear-ob- 
long. — Agrostis Sm., E. B. 951. Anemagrostis (Trin.) P. 17. — 
St. 1 — 2 feet high. Pan. very light and elegant ; branches 
spreading horizontally with flowers. Awn 3 or 4 times ex- 
ceeding the pale. Rudimentary fl. like a pedicel. A tuft of 
hair on each side of the inner pale. — Sandy fields, rare. A. 
VI. VII. E. S. 
2. A. interrup'ta (Beskuv.) ; pan. close, anth. oval. — E. B. S. 
2951. — St. i — 2 feet high. Pan. -branches dividing from their 
base, never spreading. Awn 3 or 4 times exceeding the pale. — 
Sandy fields. Pampisford and Chippenham, Cambridgeshire. 
Thetford, Sufi"o]k. Dirleton, S. A. VI. VII. E. S. 
21. Ageos'xis Linn. em. Trin. Bent-grass. 
1. .4. setdcea (Curt.); panicle close oblong, branches and 
pedicels rough, gl. unequal acuie, lower pale jagged at the top 
4-ribbed, lateral ribs ending in short setae, kneed and twisted 
awn from near the base of the pale and twice its length, I. 
setaceous involute, sheaths rough, ligule oblong acute. — E. B. 
1188. P. 83. — Root tufted. L. short, almost capillary. Pan.- 
branches short. Midrib of lower glume rough in its upper 
half, slightly excurrent. Upper pale very minute, a tuft of 
hairs at its base. — Dry heaths in the South-west. P. VII. E. 
2. A. canina (L. em., Sm.) ; pan. spreading when in flower 
otherwise close, branches and pedicels rough, gl. unequal 
