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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I.-PHRAGMITES COMMUNIS. Trla. 
Plate MDCCXXVII. 
Reich. Ic. n. Germ, ot IMv. Vol. I. Tab. CLXXXV. Fig. 502. 
Bllht, Fl. Gall, et Genu. Exsicc. No. 90. 
Arnndo Phiagraitcs, Lini. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. Xo. 40l ; and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. 
Leaves rough on the edges ; ligule composed of very short equal 
hairs. (Humes very acute, entire at the u[)ex. 
A'ar. a, vulgaris. Gren. & Godr. 
Arundo PiimLrniitt^s, - ^[.^rat:' D>n„nrf. Agrost. Belg. p. 12o. 
Stems erect. Spikelet.s 3- to G-flowcred. 
Var. 3, n::/nran.<^. Gren. & Godr. 
A. nigi-lcans " -V- r L > , A-ro^t. Eelg. p. 12o, and Tab. IX. Fig. 35. 
A. Pboudo-i)hnigniitos Z-y. " Spa. \'ol. 1. p. 4:5." Test. Gren. & Godr. 
Stems erect. Spikelets 1- to l>-flowered. Stems shorter and more 
slender, leaves narrower and panicle much smaller than in var. a. 
Tar. 7, rejmis. Meyer. 
Stems procumbent, very hjng, apparently never flowering. 
In shallow \vater by the >ides of lakes, ponds, and ditches, in wet 
Avood.> and damp pa-ture<. Rather coninion, and generally distributed, 
extending from Gornwall, the Isle of AVight, and Kent to Orkney and 
Slietlaud. \'ar. (i, Yarmoutli, Isle of Wi'jht, and probably elsewhere. 
\';ir. 7, on the south siiore of the L-le of Wight. 
Enghmd, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer. 
Rootstock extensively creeping, thick, and articulated. Stems stout, 
r> to S f. et hi^li or more in var. a. P.adical leaver, none. Leaves 
nunHT(Mis, often ^. cniid, the longest I) to 18 inches long by J to 1.', inch 
broad, tajn-rihg tou'artU the ba>e. and for a greater distance to the'acute 
apex, tiniu with numerous clo^^e ribs, every fourth or fifth of which is 
tliicker than the others, dark dull green, ^hghtly glaucous ; liirule 
reduced to a cirr le of very ^hr>rt white hair^." Panicle 5 inches to 1 
i Hjt Ion-, with nutncrou> long branches, which are at first erect, then 
dn*opiiiL;- TO one sidi% and ultimately spreadhig in ail directions and 
i' ' ■ - • ' - ^'".hrly droo[>ing, the lowot^ ones with lonir hairs 
- .keh^t- \ to I inch h;ng. purpiish-blaci:.'~tint:-ed 
th.' axi^ bern-tjeu the floret^ verv num<-rous, 
■Aim the pale.. The lower pale 'with u Ion- 
.4i-black. 
