puberulent or siibglabrous ; ligule short, oblong. Knots of the stem 
much more densely pubescent than the sheaths. Panicle erect, 
open during the time of flowering, closed before and after it ; 
panicle -branches short, branched, thinly hairy. Glumes unequal, 
acuminate, submucronate, longer than the flowers, subglabrous or 
clothed with very short sparse pubescence, ciliated with stiff' hairs on 
the keel, the upper one larger than tiie lower, with tlie lateral ribs 
rather nearer to the ribs than to tlie inner margin. Lower pale of 
the lower or perfect flower glabrous, shining, not awned; pale of the 
upper or male flower glabrous, shining, awned. Awn from about 
one-third below the apex of tlie pale, at first straight, ultimately genicu- 
late, but not hooked, extending beyond the pale about the length of 
the latter, and about one-tliird longer than the upper glume, scabrous 
throughout. Axis with a tuft of unequal hairs at the base of the 
upper or male floret, varying from a quarter to one-third the length 
of the pale. 
In woods and pastures, and on hedgebanks. Kather common, and 
generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Flowering stems 18 inches to 3 feet high: barren stems 1 foot to 
IS inches. Leavt-s of the flowering jshoots 4 to 8 inches long by J to 
inch broad : those of the barren stems shorter and narrower. 
Panicle 2 to :> inches long. Spikelets -j- inch long, whitish. Glumes 
with the lateral ribs of the upper one and the keel of both gTeen, or 
rarely purple, their surface clothed with minute tubercles producing 
short hairs. Anthers dark purple. 
Creeping Sott-Gra>^,. 
Frenrh, nnuJq^'c -uolle. Germ.m, W,:cJu>s Iloaugra^. 
This Grass is common on licrlit barren soil^, eltlier in woocis or open pastures, but 
neither cows, horses nor sheep thrive on it. Pigs are said to be fond of the roots, which 
new meal. It is a mischievous weed when it occurs in arable land, and is only got 
rid of by deep ploughing, dragging it out, burning it, and afcerwards liberally 
SPECIES II— HOLCUS LANATUS. Linn. 
Plaif ^inccxLiv. 
Hch-. Vol I, T:r.. XC\"TI. Fig. lOu. 
V. ^i.T. -L7-;. 
; ■ Fr. Vol. III. r- 
k densely ca-spitosc, not creeping, producing 
and numerous barren shoots so short that 
