GRAMINA. 
153 
Var. a, genuina, 
Plate MDCCXCI. 
F. pratensis, Huds. 8m. Engl. ed. i. No. 1592 ; and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 147. Gren. 
& Godr. Fl. de Ft. Vol. I. p. 518. Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 75. 
F. elatior, Lmn. Fl. Suec. (non Spec. Plant.) Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. 
p. 943. Pad. Fl. Ital. Vol. T. p. 455. 
Schedononis pratensis, Bom. & ScJiultes ; Undl.. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 5312. 
Bucetum pratense, Pam. Grass, of Brit. p. 105. 
Panicle compound. Lower panicle branches in pairs, one branch of 
each pair bearing several spikelets. 
Var. 0, loliarea. 
Pl.\te MDCCXCn. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXLI. Fig. 333. 
F. loliacea, Ends. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. p. 1821; and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 14G. 
Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 914. Pari. Fl. ItaJ. Vol. I. p. 456. 
Schedonorns loliaceus, Earn. & Schidtes ; Undl. Syn. Br. Fl. p. 313. 
Brachypodinm loliacium, Fries, Mant. iii. p. 15, and Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 75. 
Glyceria loUacea, Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 532. 
LoUum festucaceum, Link, Hort. Berol. Vol. I. p. 273. 
Bucetum loliaceum, Pam. Grass. Brit. p. 104. 
Panicle reduced to a simple distichous spike-like raceme. Panicle 
branches all reduced to very short 1 -flowered pedicels or rarely the 
lowest ones with more than 1 spikelet. 
In meadows. Common and generally distributed. Yar. 3 more 
local, but not rare, often intermixed with the ordinary form. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Stems 18 inches to 3 feet hiorh, 7 inches long in var. a. Longest 
leaves 4 inches to 1 foot long in var. 3, by I to inch broad. Panicle 
3 to 7 inclies long in var. a; 5 to 10 inches long in var. 3. Spikelet.s 
i to f inch long. Florets f inch long. 
In Yar. 3 though the ?{)ike is simple or nearly so, it is usually 
longer, and the spikelets larger. It has the leaves also much more 
numerous and usually larger. 
Yar. a closely resembles small states of F. elatior, Init it is more 
slender and flaccid, with shorter and narrower leaves, more tapering 
towards the apex, and with much slenderer and smoother ribs; rlip 
panicle is much narrower and less branched, scarcely dr(ioping, witli the 
jianicle-branches more distichous and slightly unilutenil so tlmt rh.} 
panicle has a back and a face; the spikelets are much n:irn.wrr. !u<jro 
parallel-si<led ; the florets are more separated and usually niorr nu- 
merous; the lower pale does not taper so much towards the ;ipex. 
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