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acute but not aTvned, scarious. Pales 2, unequal, hyaline, the lower 
one very slightly bearded at the base, keeled, truncate and denticulate 
at the apex (rarely acute and entire), with or without a bent dorsal 
awn ; the upper one smaller, with 2 keels, or sometimes very minute 
or absent. Lodicules 2, entire. Stamens 3, more rarely 1 . Stigmas 
2, subsessile, plumose, protruded at the sides of the florets between the 
basal margins of the pales. Caryops glabrous, free, elliptical-ovoid, 
not compressed, with a shallow furrow on the inner face. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Greek aypuxmc, the name of some 
grass, perhaps from oypoe, a field. 
Section I.— APE R A. Pal. de Beauv. 
Lower glume smaller than the upper one. Lower pale entire, with 
an awn a little below the apex more than thrice as long as the pale ; 
upper pale little shorter than the lower one. 
SPECIES I— AGEOSTIS ANEMAGROSTIS. 
Plates MDCCXV. MDCCXYI. 
Annual. Without radical leaves. Panicle lax, open during and after 
flowering or always closed. Lower glume shorter and narrower than 
the upper one. Lower pale longer than the lower glume, acute. Awn 
dorsal, slender, slightly bent, from immediately below the apex of the 
pale, three to four times the length of the pale. Upper pale but little 
shorter than the lower. 
Sctb-Species I— Agrostis Spica-venti. Linn. 
Plate ifDCCXV. 
lieicli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. LXXITI. Fig. 125. 
Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1302. 
Apera Spica-venti, Pnl. do B'^anv. Bah. Sfan. Brit, Bot. ed. W. p. 4('}6. Koch. Syn. 
FI. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 904. Reich. Ic. I.e. p. 8. 
Anemagrostis Spica-venti. Trin. Fund. Agr. p. 129. 
Panicle closed and continuous before flowering, but lax, open, and 
usually drooping at the apex in flower and after flowering. Longest 
panicle-branches exceeding the intemode between them and the next 
whorl ; nearly all of them bare of spikelets at the base. Anthers 
linear-oblong. 
In sandy cultivated fields. Rather local, extending from North 
Hants, Sussex, and Kent to Durham and Northumberland. 
England. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
