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awn, subscarious. Pales 2, very unequal, membranous, the lower one 
bearded at the base, terminatuig in 2 bristles at the apex, and with 
an extremely long bent dorsal awn ; upper pale shorter than the lower, 
with 2 keels. Lodicules 2, entire or denticulate. Stamens 3. 
Stigmas 2, sessile, plimiose, protruded at the sides of the floret 
between the basal margins of the pales. Caryops glabrous, free, 
elliptical-fusiform, slightly furrowed on the inner face. 
^ The name of tliis genus is derived from the Greek words \aywc, a hare, and 
SPECIES I.-LAGURUS O VAT US. Linn. 
Plate MDCCXII. 
Ii>^>-rh. Ic. n. Germ, et Tie! v. Voh T. Tab. XCI. Vi<:. HV.K 
Billot, PI. Gall, et Germ. E.xsicc. No. 182. 
The ordy known species. 
Sandy places by the sea. Very local. Xcur the mo.=it northern 
martello tower, Vazon Bav, Giwvux-v : L'Aiierc--.c Common in the 
samei>land (Mr. 0. Hailey'and Mr>. Ru-cll); ^cwer'. End, near Saf- 
fron AValden, E^sex, about 1842, but no doubt a casual uitroduction. 
Channel Islands. Aiuiual. luirly hummer. 
riant groA\ing in tufts. Sterna slightly goiiicnlate at the ba-e, 
then erect or ascending, nnequiil, 2 to 18 inches high, usually branched 
from the lower node.-, leafy toward.>^ tlie base. Leaves in the (Guernsey 
specimens h to 2 inches long by { to g- inch broad, densely clothed 
with white^soft pubescence ; u]»per sheaths swollen and all of them 
pubescent; hgule obtuse, about as long as broad, pubescent. Spike 
ovate-ovoid or subglobular-ovoid, -J, to 2 inches long, nearly white. 
Spikelets -\ to -i] inch long, (ilunie^ plumose nlmo-t to the apex. Lower 
pale with a bent dor>al awn a little below the summit, the awn ex- 
tending beyond the glumes, and fully twice as long a- the two lateral 
bristles which terminate the pale. Anther> yellowi>h-^\hite. 
