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Plant growing in dense tiifts. Radical leaves very numerous, 2 to 
9 inches long, very slender, always niucli shorter than the stem. Stem 
6 inches to 2 feet high, smooth. Uppermost stem leaf ^ to 1 inch long. 
Panicle 1 to 4 inches long, even in the latter case with the branches 
not more than an inch long. Spikelets ^ to } inch long. Glumes green, 
tinged with purple, especially towards the margins and apex, ulti- 
mately straw-colour. Anthers oblong, purple. 
According to Dr. Bromfield the panicle is but little expanded at 
any time, spreading a little only in line weather and at certain times 
of the day, and collapsing even then when gathered. 
The awn is usually described as springing from the base of the pale, 
but in the specimens from the Isle of Wight, Devon, and Cornwall 
which I have examined, it arises from a point a little below halfway 
between the middle and the base of the pale. 
Bristle-leaved Bent Grass. 
SPECIES III.— A GHOST IS CAN IN A. Li,m. 
Plate MDCCXYIII. 
Eeick. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Tol. I. Tab. LXXIV. Figs. 128 and 129. 
Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3486. 
Trictodixun caninum, Schracl. Bom. & Schnltes, Sjsi. Veg. Vol. II. p. 277. 
Agranlua caninus. Pal de Beauv. Agrost. p. 5. 
Loosely caespitose, with or without stolons. Stems erect or ascending, 
usually geniculate and sometimes rooting at the base. Radical leaves 
few, in loose trailing fascicles, setaceous, involute, green (in the British 
plant). Stem leaves several, moderately long, linear, flat; sheaths 
quite smooth, the uppermost one not above twice as long as its leaf; 
ligule oblong-lanceolate, long, scarcely laciniate. Panicle oval-oblong, 
lax, open during flowering, and irregularly closed afterwards ; panicle- 
branches long, longer than the internodes of the rachis, slightly rough, 
all of them bare of florets towards the base for about half their length. 
Glumes broadly lanceolate, acuminate, lower one a little longer and 
broader than the other, scabrous on the keel throughout. Lower pale 
three-fourths the length of the lower glume, narrowly truncate, and 
with 2 minute teeth at the apex. Awn from about the middle of the 
pale, bent, extending about two-tliirds of the length of the pale beyond 
its apex. Upper pale absent. 
On wet heaths, pastures, and in damp woods. Common, and gene- 
rally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 
Plant growing in loose tufts, with elongate baiTen shoots. Radical 
leaves slender, but much less so than those of A. setacea, green some- 
