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97. GRAMIKE^. 
3 — 4 feet high. Branches of the panicle long, in distant alter- 
nate tufts, in flo-wer horizontal, afterwards deflexed. — Damp 
shady -woods. P. VI. E. S. 1. 
Tribe IX. Agrostidece. 
17. PHBAGin'TES Trin. Eeed. 
1. P. communis (Trin.) ; pan. diffuse, spikelets .3 — 5-flowered, 
fl. exceeding the glumes. — Aritndo Sm., E. B. 401. P. 29. — 
St. 5 — 6 feet high, erect. Pan. large, purplish. L. flat, hroad. 
Stoholiferous ; stohole s ra rely aerial, 20—40 ft. long {Plujtol. i. 
146).— Marshes. P. \Tn. ' E. S. I. 
18. PsAii'iLi Pal. de Beauv. Marram. 
1. P. arendria (R. & S.) ; pan. cylindrical thickest at the 
middle, gl. and pales linear-lanceolate acute, lower pale 5-ribbed, 
hairs \ of the length of the pales. — Arundo Sm., E. B. 520. 
Ammophila (Host) P. 8. — St. erect, stiff. 2 — 3 feet high. L. rigid, 
involute, acute, glaucous. Panicle straw-coloured. — Sandy sea- 
shore, binding the shifting sands. P. \TI. E. S. L 
19. Cai,a>iageos'tis Adans. SmaU-reed. 
1. C. lanceoldta (Roth); pan. loose erect, awn very short 
from the bottom of the notch of the lower pale and scarcely ex- 
tending beyond it, hairs Ipnger than the pales, no rudimentary 
fl.— P. 84.— Arundo Calamagrostia E. B. 2519.— St. slender, 
.3—4 feet high.— Wet places, rare. P. TH. E. I. 
2. C. Epigej'os (Roth) ; pan. rather close lobed, straight awn 
from ahotd the middle of the lower pale, hairs longer than the 
pales, no rudimentary fl. — E. B. 403. P. 16. — St. 3 — 5 feet high. 
— Damp shady places. P. VII. E. S. I. 
3. C. stric'ta (Nutt.) ; pan. close, gl. lanceolate rough on the 
keel one (at least) 3-ribbed, lower pale nearly as long as the 
upper gl. deeply notched at the top longer than the hairs, straight 
awn from below the middle of the pde and scarcely extending 
beyond it, a rudimentary flower, 1. of the barren shoots slender. — 
E'.B. 2160.— St. erect, "2— 3 ft. high. L. broad; on the barren 
shoots much narrower. Uppermost ligule short, blunt : longer 
and acute in the Irish plant, which has shorter pan. -branches. 
— Bogs. Formerly foimd near Forfar. Oakmere, Cheshire. 
Lough Neagh. P.'\T VU. E. S. I. 
[C lappon'ica (Wahl.). "In Scotia adest forma nostrre pi. 
valde sinulis." Anders. 88. I cannot learn anything about this.] 
