GRAMINA. 
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in England, extending from Devon, Isle of Wight, and Kent to Lnii- 
casliire and Northumberland, said to occur near Pennicuik, Kdln- 
burgh, pLmted ( ?). 
England. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Kootstock creeping, with long stolons. Stem 2 to 4 feet hi^h, 
much more slender and smooth than that of C. Epigeios. Leaves 
.1 to i inch broad, much less rigid, and with the ribs little elevated, 
and every third or fourtli rib stronger than the others. Panicle to 
inches long. Branches more slender, smaller, and fewer at each 
node than in tlie y)anicle of C. Epigeios. Glinnes yt. inch long, 
brownish-|)urple, rarely green. Inner pale not at all bitid, and witli 
the extremely sliort awn springing from near the apex of the i)ale 
instead of from the middle, as in C. Epigeios. 
The earlier British botanists, such as Hudson and Withering, trans- 
posed the names of this and the last species, from a Linnean error in 
quoting the synonyms. 
Purple-flowered Small Reed. 
French, Cohr.n.jrostU lanr.euh-. German, Lav zcf file h^^^ Sri;jf. 
SPECIES ITI.-CALAMAGROSTIS STRICTA. A.// 
Plates MDCCXXV. MDCCXXVI. 
Reich. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. LXXVIII. Eiir. 142. 
BilU, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Ex.sicc. Xo. 31)8(3. 
C. neglecta, Fl. Wett. Frlr.^, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 79. 
Aruudo stricta, Sc!.r<uL .b'//?. Engl. Boi. ed. i. No. ; and Eiigl. Fl. V,.]. I. 
p. 171. 
A. neglecta, EJrrh. Beitr. Vol. Yl. p. 137. 
Dcyeuxia neglecta, Kio,fh, Eniim. Plant. Vol. I. p. 24r± 
Leaves narrowly linear, flac<;id, with a few slender nearly equal 
finely ])ubescent ribs and finely scabrous margins; sheaths smooth, 
the uppermost one about as long as its leaf; ligule short, subquadrate, 
laciniate. Panicle erect, oblong-lanceolate, rather lax, completely closed 
before and afrer flowering, at which time it is widely opened ; panicle- 
branches slightly rough. Spikelets rather closely placed and subimi- 
lateral on the ultimate V)ranches of the panicle. Glumes lanceolate, 
acute, slightly rough on the keel throughout, membranous. Lower 
pale fivcrsixths the length of the glumes, shortly bifid, with tlie lobes 
short, denticulate and mucronate. A^vn from below the middle of the 
pale, straight, and scarcely extending beyond it. Hairs at the base of 
the floret, rather numerous, from one-lialf to three-fourths as long 
as the glumes, and shorter than the awn. Rudimentary floret repre- 
sented by a pedicel with an apical tuft of hairs like that at the base 
of the perfect floret. 
