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GENUS XIL—A LOPECURUS. Linn. 
Spikelets very shortly stalked, articulated to the pedicles, deciduous, 
arranged in a very dense cylindrical or fusiform or ovoid spikelike 
panicle, laterally compressed, plano-convex, closed during flowering, 
each containing a single perfect floret, without any rudiment of a second. 
Glumes 2, equal, longer than the florets, keeled, acute, or obtuse, 
not awned, often more or less connected at the base, subherbaceous. 
Pale 1, keeled, -svith 2 ribs on each side besides the keel, usually with 
a dorsal awn, scarious. Lodicules absent. Stamens 3. Styles 2, 
long or short, often more or less united ; stigmas long, rather thick, 
hairy, protruded at the apex of the floret. Caryops glabrous, free, 
elliptical and laterally compressed, not channelled. 
Tlie name of tliis genus comes from tlie Greek -word dXwrr;^, a fox, and ovpa, a tail. 
SPECIES I- A LOPECURUS AGRESTIS. 
Plate MDCXCIX. 
Uekli. Ic. ri. Germ, et Helv. Yol. 1. Tab. CLXXYin. Fig. 473. 
Bmof, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 476. 
Annual. Stems erect, scarcely geniculate, branched frofci the lower 
knots. Leaves thin, with rather few and distant broad slightly-raised 
ribs, pale green, not glaucous. Panicle narrowly cylindrical-fusiform, 
gradually attenuated and acute at the base and at the apex ; panicle- 
branches each with a single spikelet. Spikelets oval-elliptical. Glumes 
uiiite<l nearly to the middle, converging at the tips, parchment-like, 
acuminate, ghibrous; keel slightly winged, ciliateti with long hairs 
on the I(3\ver half, and with very short ones above the middle. Awn 
from near tlie ])ase of the pale, and nearly as long again as the 
glumes. Anthers hncar. 
In cultivated fields and in waste places, particularly in sandy soil, 
common in the south of England, but becoming scarce 'a\ the north. 
Xot even naturalised in Scotland, where it is occasionally found on 
ballast hills, or in fields to which it has been introduced with seed 
brought from more southei-n localities. The author?; < jf the Cybele 
llibernica" say it is not riaturalise<l in Iri-lan,l. 
Eng:.i::d. Annual Early Sin.iin.r to h.te Aiirumi;. 
^ 1 r.>_ :2' tk-t high, slender, ver}' bliglitly -cabrous; leafy for 
-buUL nvu-Ti.ii'<lo uf their length upward.-, with branches endm^- in 
