GRAMINA. 
of stem about equal to its own length between its apex and the base 
of the panicle. Panicle IJ to Bh inches long. Spikelets resembling 
those of Bromus Madritensis in miniature, 1 to 1^ inch long 
(exclusive of the awns), pale green, with white-margined pales, and 
purple or whitish awns. 
The lower glume is very variable in size and shape ; in the smallest 
form it is very obtuse, while when most developed it is acute or 
even awned. Lower pales of the lower florets slightly overlapping 
those of the upper florets. 
Single-glumed Fescue-Grass. 
French, Fetuque uniglump,. 
SPECIES II.-P ESTtrCA MYUROS. Linn. 
Plates MDCCLXXX. MDCCLXXXI. MDCCLXXXII. 
Vulpla Myuros, Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. I. p. 418. 
Annual. Without tufts of radical leaves. Stems erect from a 
slightly geniculate but rarely decumbent base, simple, or branched 
from the lower nodes in luxuriant examples. Leaves very narrowly 
linear, channelled, ultimately convolute, with a few very broad thick 
slightly-raised downy ribs, green, the upper ones slightly glaucous; 
sheaths smooth, the uppermost one considerably larger than its leaf, 
usually about 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 long or short, dense or rather lax, somewhat semi-cylin- 
drical, linear or oblong, branched towards the base or in the lower 
half, simple and racemose towards the apex, more or less distichously 
unilateral. Lower panicle branches elongate and bearing several 
spikelets ; upper ones short and reduced to pedicels. Pedicels usually 
applied to the rachis and branches, thickened upwards, shorter than 
the spikelets. Spikelets 3- to 7-flowered, erect. Glumes unequal; 
lower glume always present, and from one-sixth to one-half the 
length of the upper one ; upper glume about half as long as the 
contiguous florets, or rarely nearly as long, mucronate or subulate. 
Florets usually more or less separated in fruit, from the edges of 
the lower pales becoming involute. Lower pale gradually attenu- 
ated into an awn exceeding its own length, scabrous on the keel and 
awn, and more or less finely punctate-scabrous all over. Anther I. 
