96 49. Agropyrunr. 10. GRAMINEiE. Pl.end.ph. 
4. Agropyrum pun gens. Pricking wheat grass. 
Spike continued; rachis hispid; locustce alternate 2-rowed; 
spathelles equal, acute, 5 to 7-ribbed ; spat/iellules very 
short, mucronate ; leaves flat at bottom, edge convolute at 
top, rather stiff, pungent ; root creeping. 
Gramen caninum maritimum spica triticea, Raii Syn. 390,3-. 
Triticum repens y, Smith FI. Brit. 1, 15S. 
Triticum pungens, Lamarck FI. Fr. Sapp. 1662. 
-Agropyriim pungens, Roem. Sys. Veg. 
Sea-side. 
Boot creeping ; leaves flat, apex rolled, smooth or hairy. 
5. Agropyrum repens. Creeping wheatgrass. 
Boot creeping, white, jointed, soboliferous ; locustce ob- 
long, mostly 4 -flowered ; spathelles awnless ; spathellules 
mucronated, as long as the spathelles. 
Gramen caninum q. Gramen spica triticea repens vulgare, caninum dic- 
tum, Raii Syn. 390, 1. 
Gramen caninum, Ger. em. 23, 
Gramen caninum vulgatius, Park. 1173, 
Gramen of the medical writers. 
Triticum repens, Lin. S. P. 121. 
Bromus glaber, Scop. Cam. 1, 84. 
Triticum arvense, Schreber. 
Triticum infestum, Salis. Prod. 27. 
Agropyrum arvense, Rcemer Sys. Veg. 754. 
Dogs grass. Couch grass. Quitch grass. 
Fields and gardens ; perennial ; July to August. 
Boot creeping ; culm erect, 2 feet high, slender, leafy ; 
leaves very spreading, nearly 1 -rowed, rough on the upper 
surface and edge ; spike rather erect, 2 to 3 in. long ; lo- 
custce small ; spathelles often awned ; awns of different 
lengths. 
Boot sweet, used as food for horses in many countries, 
also for man in time of scarcity, or medicinally as a demul- 
cent and aperient, has also been proposed as a saccharine 
matter for brewing ; but being a troublesome weed in gar- 
dens is mostly burnt ; leaves eaten by dogs as an emetic, 
probably acting mechanicalfy. 
/3. sululatum. Locustce oblong, mostly 6-flowered ; spa- 
thelles awlshape ; spatkeilules mucronate, longer than the 
spathelles. 
Triticum subulatum, Schreber. 
y. dumetorum. Locustce either single, in pairs or in 
threes, oblong, 5 or 6-flowered; spathelles and spathellules 
awned ; awns not a line long. 
Triticum dumetorum, Schreber. 
Triticum repens 3, With. Bot.Arr. 1,229. 
