(256.) 
LAGU'RUS* *. 
Linn can Class and Order. Tria'ndria f, Digy'nia. 
Natural Order. Grami'ne.e, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 28. — Sm. Gram, 
of Bot. p. 86. Engl. FI. v. i. p. 71 . — Lindl. Syn. p. 293. ; Introd. 
to Nat. Syst. of Bot p. 292. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 542. — Mack. FI. 
Hibern. p. 294. — Gramina, Linn. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p.393. — 
Gramixales ; sect. Festucinje ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. i. pp. 359 
and 369. 
Gen. Char. Panicle spiked. Spikelels 1-flovvered (see fig. 1 ). 
Calyx (see fig. 2.) of 2 equal, slender, membranous, spreading, 
fringed glumes, lengthened into feathery awns. Corolla (fig. 3.) 
of 2 unequal palea, thicker and firmer than the glumes ; the outer 
palea longest, egg-oblong, concave, terminating in 2 equal, upright 
awns, shorter than the glumes, and bearing a much longer one 
from the middle of its back, twisting in the lower part, tapering 
and direct in the upper, reflexed when dry ; inner palea smaller, 
involute, cloven, awnless. Nectary (fig. 5.) deeply cloven, acute. 
Filaments (see fig. 3.) 3, hair-like, shorter than the calyx. Anthers 
upright, oblong, cloven at each end. Germen (see fig. 4.) elliptic- 
oblong. Styles (see fig. 4.) very short. Stigmas cylindrical, fea- 
thery. Seecl oblong, blunt, with a furrow along the front, loose, 
but enveloped in the unchanged corolla. 
The dense, spiked panicle ; the 1 -flowered spilielets ; the calyx 
of 2 equal, fringed glumes, lengthened into feathery awns ; and the 
corolla of 2 pale.ee, the outer of which is bifid at the apex, with a 
dorsal awn ; will distinguish this from other genera in the same 
class and order. 
Only One species known. 
LAGU'RUS OVA'TUS. Ovate Hare’s-tail-grass. 
Spec. Char. 
Engl Bot. t. 1334. -FI. Graec. v. i. p. 71. t. 90. — Host. Gram. Austr. v. ii. 
p. 34. t. 46. — Sehreb. Gram. v. i. p. 143. t. 19. f. 3. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 119. — 
VVilld. Sp. PI. v. i. pt. i. p.453. — Dickson’s Hortus Siccus, fasc. 7. 1 .fide 
Smith.— Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 143. Engl. FI. v. i. p. 167. — With. (5th ed.) v. ii. 
p. 220. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 153.— Lindl. Syn. p. 299. — Hook. Brit. FI. 
p. 30. — Alopecuros, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 87. n. 1. — Alopecuros genuina, 
Morison. v. iii. p. 191. sect. 8. t. 4. f. 1.— Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum, 
p. 1166. n. 1. — Gramen spicatum tomentosum longissimis aristis donation, 
Scheuchzero Agrostographia, p. 58. t. 2. f. 4. b. c. — Gramen alopecur aides, 
spicti rotundiore, Bauh. Pin. p. 4. 
Localities. — In open sandy fields, near the sea, in the South ; very rare. — 
In Guernsey: Mr. Gosselin, in Dickon's Hort. Sice. In the same locality, 
in 1833: W. C. Trevelyan, Esq., from whom wild specimens were sentto the 
Sherardian Herbarium. 
Annual. — Flowers in June. 
Fig. 1. Two of the Spikelets. — Fig. 2. The two Glumes of the Calyx. — Fig. 3* 
A single Floret, showing the two Palea;, the Stamens, and the Pistils. — Fig. 4. The 
Germen, Styles, and Stigmas. — Fig. 5. Nectary . — All a little magnified. 
* From logos, Gr. a bare ; and our a, Gr. a tail ; from the spike-like panicle 
resembling the tail of a hare. Thornton. 
t See folio 56, note +. 
