124 64}. Vulpia. 
10. GRAMINEiE. 
PI. end.ph. 
Walls and barren places; biennial; May to September. 
Root fibrous, in tufts; culms many, 12 in. high, upright, 
very smooth; radical leaves nonet; stem-leaves 3 to 6, short; 
sheaths bellied above, inclosing part of the panicle ; ligula 
white; panicle 6 in. long, pale green; lower peduncle many- 
flowered. 
2. Vulpia hromoides. BromeUke capons- tail. 
Panicle short, spikeshape, fewflowered, upright; loeustee 
smoothish ; inner spathelle half the length of the outer ; 
culm naked above; ligula scarcely visible. 
Festuca hromoides, Lin. S. P. 110. 
Bromus Derloniensis, Altioni Fed. 2,2225. 
Bromus ambiguus, Cyrilli. 
Walls and barren places; biennial; May to September. 
Culm 6 in. high, usually branched at bottom ; leaves 
bristlelike, short ; ligula brown ; panicle 3 to 9-flowered ; 
peduncle 1 -.flowered ; margin of the inner spathellule pu- 
bescent. 
$. sciuroides. Culm very high. 
Festuca sciuroides, Roth Germ. 1,46, et 2, 130. 
3. Vulpia maritima. Sea capons-tail , 
Panicle scarcely branched, spikeshape, upright, few- 
flowered; locust <e smooth; inner spathelle very minute, 
scarcely perceptible; ligula short, obtuse. 
Festuca avenacea sterilis humillima spica unam partem spectante, Ran 
Syn. 413,3. 
Folium hromoides, Hud. FI. Ang. 55. 
Stipa peunata, Lin. Sp. P. 116. 
Festuca uniglumis, Solander in Aiton H. Kew. 1, 108, 
Sandy sea-shores; biennial; June. 
Root fibrous ; culms angular, many, branched, leafy, 6 in. 
high ; leaves subinvolute, smooth ; sheaths long, smooth ; 
panicle 12 in. long; locustce upright. 
XXIV. 65. GLYCERIA. R. Brown. Manna-grass. 
Glume 5 to 7-fiowered ; spathelles parallel, truncated, 
shorter than the locustae ; edge membranous, transparent ; 
lower spathellule torn, manytoothed, boatshape ; upper 
2-toothed, embracing ; lodicule almost connate, cordate ; 
stigmata feathered; cariopsis fewfur rowed. — Rackis panicled : 
panicle scarcely branched, facing one way. 
