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EXGLISH BOTAXT. 
Rootstock creeping, with long scaly stolons. Stems 2 to 6 feet 
high, stout, rough, erect. Leaves of the barren radical tuft 1 to 2 feet 
long, the lower stem leaves considerably longer, the uppermost one 
6 inches to 1 foot or more long, | to | inch broad, flat, but becoming 
involute when the plant is gathered or late in the season, when they 
begin to wither. Panicle 6 inches to 1 foot lonir, 1 to 2 inches broad ; 
panicle-branches very numerous at each node^ forming half^whorls, 
the longest from 2 to 3 inches, unbranched and bare of spikelets for 
about half their length at the base, the shorter ones branched to about 
I inch from the base. Spikelets nearly i inch long, usually dull purple 
or purplish-brown, but sometimes wholly pale green. Hairs white, 
ultimately about as long as the glumes. 
Wood Small Heed. 
FrencB, Arunilo e-pigeios. German, Land-Schilf. 
^ This is one of our handsomest grasses, and would seem to be more common tlian 
Cirencester. It is also frequent in tlie woods of Dorset. Its silky hairs give tlie 
flowers a pleasing aspect to the collectors of grass bouquets. 
SPECIES n.-CALAMAGIlOSTIS LANCEOLATA. Both. 
Plate MDCCXXIV. 
Fflkh Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. LXXXH. Fig. 1-51. 
BiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Ko. 418. 
Arundo Calamagrostis, Z/;,r«. ^'/,.-. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 2159 ; and Enc^l Fl Vol I 
p. 170. 
Leaves linear, flaccid, with numerous slender unequal puberulent 
ribs (at least in the uppermost leaves) and finely scabrous margins, 
j>ale green ; sheaths smooth, the uppermost one about as long as its 
leaf; ligule rather short, oblong, laciuiate. Panicle drooping at the 
apex, broadly oblong-lanceolate, rather lax, loosely and irregulafty 
closed before and after flowering, at which time it is widely opened; 
panicle-branches slightly rough. Spikelets laxly placed all round 
the ultimate branches of the panicle. Glumes lanceolate-subulate, 
slightly rough on the keel in the upper half, membranous. Lower 
pale a little more than half the length of the glumes, shortly 2-toothed, 
vnth the teeth small and mucronate. Awn from the bottom of the 
notch between the teeth, and consequently very near the apex of the 
pale, straight, very slightly exceeding the teeth of the pale. Hairs at 
the base of the floret, numerous, about one-fourth shorter than the 
glumes, but considerably longer than the awn. Rudimentary floret 
absent. 
In swampy woods and wet meadows. Local, but widely distributed 
