10. GRAMINEiE. 63. Festuca. 123 
PL end. ph. 
@. glair a. Locust ce 3-flowered. 
Festuca glabra, Lightf . FI. Scot. 1085. 
Festuca rubra y, Smith FI. Brit. 116. 
9. Festuca duriuscula . Stiff-' fescue. 
Panicle facing one way, upright, spreading ; locust ee lan- 
ceolate, smoothish, bristled ; leaves stiff, bristlelike, sea- 
green; root fibrous. 
Festuca avenacea q. Gramen pratense panicula duriore laxa, unam 
partem spectantia, Raii Syn. 413,4. 
Festuca duriuscula, Lin. S. P. 108. 
Festuca dura, Host Gram. Austr. 2,87. 
Festuca duriuscula laevigata, Gaudin Agr. Ilelv. 251. 
Dry pastures; perennial; June. 
Roots in tufts; radical leaves many, hard, smoothish; stem- 
leaves flat, stiff, short ; sheaths smooth ; ligula short, brown ; 
panicle obldng, broad, green and white; peduncles single. 
10. Festuca dumetoruin. Hedge fescue. 
Panicle upright, spikeshape, facing one way ; locust cc 
pubescent, bristled ; Iris tie shorter than the glumelle ; 
leaves threadlike, seagreen ; root fibrous. 
Festuca dumetorum, Lin. S. P. 109. 
Festuca duriuscula, var. Huds. FI. Ang - 45. 
Dry pastures; perennial; June. 
Roots in tufts ; leaves many ; stem-leaves slender, flattish, 
rather stiff; panicle slender; locustae smaller than festuca 
duriuscula; glumelle entirely pubescent. 
XXIII. 64. VULPIA. Gmelin. Capons-tail. 
Glumes 4, 6, or 8-flowered ; spathelles parallel, very un- 
equal; inner 3 or 4 times shorter than the outer; glumelle 
bristled ; lower spathellule ending in a bristle longer than 
the glumelle; upper 2-cut, toothed; lodicule ovate, entire, 
hairy; stamen 1 \ stigmata villose; cariopsis rather husked, 
furrowed. — Rachis jointed; panicle racemose, facing one 
way; pedicels inflated, wedgeshape; leaves bristlelike. 
1 . Vulpia murorum. Wall capons-tail. 
Panicle long, rather contracted, drooping, spiked, many- 
flowered ; loeustee smoothish ; inner spathelle half the length 
of the outer; culm inclosed in a sheath nearly to the panicle; 
ligula short, 2-eared. 
Festuca avenacea q. Gramen murorum spica longissima, Ger. em. 
Raii Syn. 415, 12. 
Festuca myurus, Lin. S. P. 109. 
Yulpia myurus, Gmel. FI. Bad. 1,8. 
