ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES L-FESTUC A UNIGLUMIS. Soland. 
Plate ilDCCLXXES. 
Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. T. Tah. CXXX. Fifr. 291. 
Uniot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2598. 
F. bromoides, " Linn." Orep. Man. Fl. de Belg. cd. ii. p. 353. (Non Sm.) 
Viilpia uniglnmis, Duinort. Agrost. Belg. p. 101. Pari. Fl. Itiil. Vol. I. p. 424. 
Eeich. Ic. 1. c. p. 35. Lindt. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 314. 
V. bromoides, Godr. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 568. (Non Link, nec 
Reich.) 
V. mombranacea, Link, Eort. Reg. Berol. p. 147. 
Annual, Without tufts of radical leaves. Stems ascending or 
erect from a decumbent and geniculate base, usually branched from 
the lower nodes. Leaves narrowly linear, channelled, ultimately 
convolute, with a few very broad thick raised finely-downy ribs, 
irreen ; sheaths smooth, the uppermost one conS'iderably longer than 
its leaf (usually more than twice as long) ; ligule extremely short, 
truncate in the middle, but produced into an auricle on each side of 
the base of the leaf. Panicle short, dense, semi-cylindrical, oblong, 
simple, racemose, disticliously unilateral. Panicle-branches all reduced 
to peiUcels bearing single spikelcts. Pedicels applied to the racliis, 
greatly thickened upwards, mostly shorter than the spikelets. Spike- 
lets 3- to G-flowered erect. Glumes very unequal; lower glume very 
minute, often obsolete or reduced to a scale, and rarely more than one- 
sixth the length of the upper glume ; upper glume nearly as long as the 
fh)rets (exclusive of the awn), insensibly attenuated into a scabrous 
awn about one-fourth of its own length. Florets imbricated, not 
separated in fruit. Lower pale gradually attenuated into an awn 
exceeding its own length, at least in the lower florets, scabrous on 
the keel and awn, and ^ouletimes slightly punctate-scabrous towards 
the apex, elsewhere glabrous. Anthers 3 (or "2" Hook, jil.) 
On sandy seashores. Rather rare. Extending from Devon, the Isle 
of Wight, and Kent, north to Lancashire and Norfolk. Rare and local 
in Ireland, whrre it is confined to the east coast. 
Kngland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Stems 3 to l.') inches high, forming small or large tufts; in the latter 
ca>e the stcm.> are })rancht-d from the lower nodes, and these 
hr.- " - ' . -V the main stem, ami never attain its height. 
; ■ tlie h.wer ones extremely ruitow, but the 
; inch bn..ad. thougli like the other ones soon 
: uppermost >hrath reaching up to the panicle 
■ iowvr. but akimately leaving a bare portion 
