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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
not feel at all confident that Mr. Lloyd and Dr. Hooker are not 
correct in placing F. ambigua as a variety of F. Pseudo-myuros. 
Mouse-tail Fescue-Grass. 
Frencli, Fetuque fausse queue de rat. German, Miiusesclwanz-ScUmngel. 
Sub-species HI— Festuca SCiuroides. noth. 
Plate iMDCCLXXXII. 
EeicJi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Heir. Vol. I. Tab. CXXX. Fi-^ 293 
Billot, Fl. GaD. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 488. 
F. bromoides, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1411, and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 142. (an 
F. bromoides, var. a, Roolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 5.57. Koch Syn. Fl Germ 
etHelv.ed. ii.p.937. 
Valpia SCiuroides, Gmel. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 65. 
V. Mynros, /3, bromoides, Pari. Fl. ItaL Vol I. p. 419. 
Stems erect. Uppermost sheath ultimately falling far short of the 
base of the panicle and leaving a portion of the stem exposed at the 
apex. Panicle erect, rarely occupying more than one-sLxth part of 
the whole stem, and commonly not so much, rather dense or rather 
lax, sometimes interrupted below, narrowly oblong, slightly distich- 
ous or unilateral, subsecund, branched usually to above the middle. 
Lowest panicle-branches from one-third to one-half the length of the 
panicle. Upper glume subulate, scarcely twice as long as "the lower, 
and about five-sixtlis the length of the contiguous floret, exclusive of 
the awn of the latter. Florets green, rarely tinged with purplish, 
greatly enlarged upwards after flowering. Lower pale not ciliated, 
sliglitly punctate-scabrous or nearly smooth. 
In drv^ pastures and waste places, by road-sides and on wall-tops. 
Common and generally distributed, extending north to Ross or per- 
haps Orkney. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Stems usually from T, inches to 1 foot high, but varving frf)m 3 
inches to 2tV feet. Panicle 2 to 4 inches long. Spikelets to -V 
inch long, exclusive of the aNrns. Florets about | inch lono- without 
the awn. ° 
Diifers from F. Pseudo-myuros, to which it is ver^^ closely related 
^- -1- ^ - _ -v.'v slender, and their upper part exserted from 
-h: in the panicle being much shorter in pro- 
l, wirh tiu' terminal >impIo portion less 
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