EXGLISn BOTAXY. 
SPECIES I-ECHINOCHLOA CRUS-GALLI. PaJ.JeBeam; 
Plate IVrDCXCII. 
lleich. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Hoi v. Vol. I. Tab. CXCI. Figs. 515 and 516. 
lillloU Fl. Gall, ct Ge™. Exsicc. No. 2167. 
Oplismeims Crus-galli, Knnth, Enum. I»Iant. Yol. 1. p. 143. Dumort. Agrost. Bdg. 
p. 138. 
Panicnni Crus-galli, L;,-,,k S,,k Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 876. Bonlc.fl. Stud. Fl. p. 425. 
Kocl, Syn. Fl. Cerra. et Helv. cd. ii. p. 892. Gren. & an,lr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. 
p. 4*>i). Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. I. p. 115. 
Leaves glabrous, without any ligule. Branches of the spikes 
alternate, compoimd; racliis anguUir, hispid on the angles. Spike- 
lets pubescent. Pale of the neuter floret mucronate or inore or less 
iongly awned. 
In cultivated ground and waste places. Imperfectly naturalised. 
It used to occur year after year in Battersea Fields. In 18') 2 and 
l8r)3 it came up abundantly on the mud from the Thames laid down 
on what is now Batter?ea Bark. It has also been reported from near 
Guildford and Godalniing, Surrey. In the l>ritish Flora" it is 
stated to have occurred near Thetford, Norfolk, and several localities 
are given for it in ^liddlcsex in Trimen and Dyers " Flora" of that 
cnunty, viz., near IlamfJton Court, Appleton, and Bamet, &c., but 
it would perhaps be better to expunge it from the British lists even 
as a naturalised [)l:uit. 
[England.] Annual. Autumn. 
Stems numerous, often rooting at the base, geniculate below, stout, 
1 to o feet hiLdi. generally branched. Leave< inches to 1 foot long, 
dee[> dull gn en, Avith rather distant ribs and 9 to 11 stronger ones 
i to 1 iricli ' r'ad, wirli conipre>?cd >heaths. Panicle 8 to 7 inches 
long. Spikdr-t^ ' hich long (exclusive of the awn, which is very 
variable in lt:i_::rh even in the same spike), oval-ovate, compressed, 
green, u.-ually tingCLl with pale dull purple on the outer side. 
.\W r,f cra>^eR, wliich, from their 
