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when in flower, but closed, oblong-fusiform, much lobed, and scarcely 
spikelike before and after flowering. Pedicels articulated at the base, 
thickened upwards, longer than broad. Glumes acuminate, acute, 
indistinctly notched at the apex, with very minute acute lobes, finely 
scabrous-pubescent, ciliated with thick cartilaginous hairs on the keel 
and slender ones on the margins and apex, with a scabrous dorsal awn 
springing immediately below the apex, from one-half to three-fourths 
as long as the glumes. Lower pale acuminate and bidentate at 
the apex, with a very slightly scabrous awn from the bottom of the 
notch, varjdng from as long as to two and a half times as long as the 
pale. 
In marshes near the sea and tidal rivers. Very local, usually 
growing with P. Monspeliensis. Near Porchester and Portsea, Hants; 
Plumstead Practice Ground, and near Erith, Kent; Essex coast (?), 
said to have been found by Dickson, but not confirmed by recent 
observers; Cley and near WeUs, Norfolk; St. Sampson's, Guernsey. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Stems 9 inches to 3 feet high. Longest leaves 2 to G inches lon«>- 
by J to inch broad, duller green and more stiff than in P. Monspeli" 
ensis, in other respects similar; upper sheath scarcelv swollen ; llcnde 
long, laciniate. Panicle 1 to 7^ inches long, u.iudlv tin-ed with 
purple, but sometimes green, bearing con>i(lerable reseniblauce to that 
of Agrostis alba, Spikelets to J inch long, exclusive of the awns. 
Awns considerably shorter than those of P'. Monspeliensis. Lower 
j)ale longer and narroAver, and more pointed than that of P. Mons- 
peliensis, with a nmch longer and smoother awn. 
Perennial Beard Grass, 
XI7//._AGR0STIS. Lh 
rirrangfl in a lutJ^o or rarely den-i 
the fioret, keeled, 
