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98. GRAMINE.*:. 
40. Cynosu'rus Linn. ei/i. Trin. Dog's-tail-grass. 
1. C. cristdtics (L.) ; raceme spikelike linear, fl. with a very 
short awn.— j?. B. 316. P. 28.— St. 12—18 in. high. Spike 
unilateral, plane-compressed. Spikelets closely placed. Bract 
comblike.— Pastures. P. VIII. E. S. I. 
[C. echindtus (L.) ; raceme contracted close ovate, awns 
about as long as the pales.— ^. B. 1333. P. 28 & 129.— St. 
erect, 1 — 2 feet high. Bract comblike with long points. — 
Sandy places in Guernsej^ and Jersey. A. VII.] 
41. Dac'tylis Linn, em., Bemiv. Cock's-foot-grass. 
1. D. glomerdta (L.) : pan.-branches with ovate clusters of 
spikelets, st. erect linear flat with rough margins, root caes- 
pitose. — E. B. 335. P. 29. — A coarse grass. Pan.-branches 
long, sijreading or divaricate with fl., afterwards adpressed, dis- 
tant ; each bearing an ovate cluster of spikelets : or panicle 
reduced to one cluster. — Meadows. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
42. Festxj'ca Linn, em., Bah.^ Fescue-grass. 
* Root-leaves very narrow. Ligule ivith round auricles. 
Awn terminal. 
f Awn longer than the pale. Gl. very unequal. Vulpia. 
% Usualli/ triandrous. 
1. F. membrandcea (Druce) ; uppermost sheath far distant 
from the erect close 2-ranked simple panicle, fl. compressed 
keeled, gl. very unequal often only one, larger gl. very long and 
very acute. — /'. uniglumis (Sol. in Ait.), E. B. 1430. P. 112. 
— St. 6 — 12 in. high, erect, leafy nearly to the top. Panicle 
close, short. Lower gl. usually scarcely distinguishable. 
Upper gl. setigerous nearly equalling 1st fl. on same side. — 
Sandy sea-shores. A. VI. E. I. 
X% Usually monandrom. 
2. /'. hroindides (L.) ; uppermost sheath far distant from 
the erect-patent oblong pan., lowermost pan. -branch about equal- 
ling h pan., fl. terete rough, gl. uneqiuil as '2tol, larger gl. about 
equalling lowest flower. — F. sciuro'ides (Roth), E. B. 1411. — 
1 See Prof. H.ickel's exhaustive Mono'jraphia t'eslticarum europwarnvi. — 
H. & J. G. 
