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92. GRAMINE^. 
often producing long prostrate scions. Sheaths mostly smooth. 
FI. rarely awned. — /il. pumila ; c»spitose, st. 2 — 3 in. high, 11. 
often awned usually infested with smut.— Rather dry places. 
P. VII. 
4. A. alba (L.) ; panicle compact after flowering, glumes nearly 
equal : outer toothed throughout its keel, ligule elongate acute. — 
2J. R. 1189. P.13.14. — St. erect. Sheaths roughish. Panicle 
spreading when in flower, afterwards close. Florets sometimes 
though rarely awned. — (3. stolonifera ; with long prostrate scions. 
E. B. 1532. — y. maritima ; st. procumbent, rooting at the joints, 
panicle small lobed. — Fields, &c. y. Sea-sands. P. VII. 
14. Apera Adans. 
1. A. Spica-venti{Bcsxiv.) •, panicle spreading, awn 3 or 4 times 
as long as the pale, anth. linear-oblong. — B.. 1421. Agrostis Sm., 
E. B. 951. Anernagrostis (Trin.) P. 17. — St. 1 — 2 feet high. 
Panicle very light and elegant. Rudiment of the second fl. a 
small pedicel with a tuft of hair on each side, at the base of the 
inner pale. — Sandy lields, rare. A. VI. VII. E. S. 
Tribe V. Stipacece. 
15. Stipa Feather-grass. 
[1. S. pennata (L.); awn very long tudsted feathery its base 
glabrous. — E. B. 1355. — A beautiful plant with remarkably long 
awns, common in gardens. — On rocks in Long Sleadale 6 miles 
north of Kendal, Westm. Dillenius. P. VI.] E. 
Tribe VI. Arundinece. 
IG. Arundo 
1. A. Calamagrostis (L.) ; panicle loose erect, awn very short 
from the bottom of tbe notch at the top of the outer pale and 
scarcely extending beyond it, hairs longer than the jjales, no rudi- 
mentary fl. — E. B. 2159. P. 84. Calamagrostis lanceolata AocA. 
— St. slender, 3 — 4 feet high. — Wet places, rare. P. VII. E. 
2. A. Epigejos (L.); panicle rather close lobed, aww/row 
the middle of the outer j)ale, hairs longer than the pales, no rudi- 
mentary fl. — E. B. 403. P. 1 6. Calamagrostis, Hook. — St. 3 — 5 
feet high. — “ fi. glauca (Fries); more slender, 1. narrower, pani- 
cle eftrise.” — Damp shady ])laces. Near St. Ives, Hunts. 
Rev. W. W. Newhould. P. VII. 
3. A. strict a (Schrad.) ; panicle close, glumes lanceolate rough 
on the keel one (at least) 3-nerved, outer pale nearly as long as 
the inner glume deeply notched at the top longer than the hairs. 
