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ENGLISH BOTA^rT. 
Very closely allied to F. duriuscula, of wMch many think it to be 
but a maritime variety. The mode of growth is the same, but the 
stolons, and consequently the branches of the rootstock, are so much 
lengthened that there is no tendency to a cjEspitose habit. The 
leaves of the barren tufts are disposed on shoots which are usually 
80 elongated that they appear as barren stems ; they are more rigid, 
from the ribs being thicker and more cartilaginous, and have the two 
edges so closely applied that they appear rush-like ; they are always 
more or less glaucous, which is only occasionally the case in F. durius- 
cula. The lower sheaths of F. rubra are always pubescent, while they 
are only occasionally so in F. duriuscula. The stem-leaves are more 
involute, the lower ones being conduplicate like those of the barren 
shoots, and the uppermost ones deeply channelled, with fewer, more 
prominent, and more hairy ribs than in F. duriuscula. The panicle 
is more often drooping and secund; the panicle-branches less rigid; 
the spikelets larger, broader, usually with more numerous florets, and 
always glaucous. Lower pale usually pubescent, very rarely wholly 
glabrous. 
Creeping Fescue-Grass. 
FrencI, Fetuqae rouge. German, Eotlier Sclivnngel. 
Section III SCHEDONORUS. Pal. de Beauv. 
Panicle dilfuse at the time of flowering, rarely nearly simple and 
spike-like. Lower glume a little smaller than the upper, but never 
minute. Lower pale lanceolate, semi-cylindrical, rounded on the back, 
not awned, or with an awn at or from a little below the apex much 
shorter than the pale. Stamens 3. 
Perennials, with all the leaves broad and flat ; ligule not auricled. 
SPECIES V._FESTUC A SYLVATICA. ¥111] 
Plates ^IDCCLXXXVII. MDCCLXXXYIII. 
Rl'cI. To. p.. Germ, et Rc\v. Vol. I. Tab. CXXX. Fig. 326. 
nUi.-f, Fl. Gall, ot Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 8S7. 
V. ealamaria, Engl.Fl. Vol. I. p. 145. 
Scliedor.oru.s calamarius, Bum. & Schiilf£>>, Syst. Veg. Vol. IT. p. 701. 
Pua tiylvL.tii:a, F;IL Parn. Grasses of Brit. p. 99. 
Ca.-!>Lr<D>e. Rootstock with very short thick creeping branches 
terminating in tufts of flowering and barren stems, but without 
stolons terminating in barren shoots. Flowering stems erect from 
the l-a-se, stout, smooth, k-afv, with the lowemiost sheatlis with- 
out any kmina. Leaves tdl very broadly linear, flat, gradually 
tapering towards the npex, with very numerous slender slightly 
