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nre rcrtniiilv ^lioiit. but they appear to be quite constant. Both 
^Ir. II. C. Watson and myself have raised A. fulvus from seed, and 
find it retains its characters, such as they are. 
A. pronus (Mitten) I have always understood to be a form of A. 
geniculatus, with the stems not geniculate. Dr. Hooker, however, in 
the Student's Flora," says, it is a " prostrate form " of A. pratensis. 
As I have not seen the plant, I am unable to offer any opinion. The 
Rev. W. W. Xewbould informs me that from a casual examination 
of the specimens, named A. pronus, in Mr. Borrer's Herbarium at 
Kew, he is inclined to think that there is either a mixture of speci- 
mens of A. geniculatus and A. pratensis, or that they are hybrids. If 
the latter be the case, probably A. pronus is the same as A. pratensis- 
geniculatus Wivhira (A. hvbridus, Wimmer), mentioned in Garcke's 
" Flora of Nord- und Mittel-Deutschland" (ed. vi. p. 438), of which 
I have specimens from Bremen, collected by Dr. Focke. 
Bent-stemmed Foxtail- Grass. 
Frencli, Valpin genmulle. German, Geknieter Fuclisscliwam. 
Sub-Species hi.— Alopecurus bulbosus. I^inn. 
Plate MDCCII. 
Beicli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Tol. I. Tab. CLXSYJII. Fig. 474. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 1355. 
Stem.s usually more or less geniculate, erect, or decumbent but 
not rooting at the base, terrestrial, 8im{>le, the lowest joints swollen 
into an ovoi<l corrii tapering u[)wards. Leaves rather thick, with 
numerous close broad prominent slightly rough cartilaginous ribs, 
pale green, slightly glaucous. Panicle fusiform-cylindrical, abruptly 
pointed at the base and apex, broadest in the middle ; panicle- 
branches mostly with 1 or 2 spikelets. Spikelets narrowly oblong, 
(flumes free to the very base, acuminate and shortly mucronate, as 
long as the pales, somewhat parchmentlike, thinly pubescent, pale 
green, with a dark lead-coloured stripe on each side of the keel, 
and another parallel to the inner margin at the apex ; keel not 
winged, ciliated (as are also the ribs) with long silky hairs in the 
lower half and shorter ones in the apical half. Awn from near the 
base of the pale, and nearly as long again as the glumes. Anthers 
narrowly oblong, yellowish-white or purj>le, changing to orange- 
brown. 
! - ■-■ — ■ 1 ineadowi?, pastures, and waste ground near the 
distributed round the coast of the southern 
' ing north to Cv.^.vAley llm'>h,^ near Warrington, 
'.■,W5, near York. In Ireland it is said to have 
