138 81. Coryneph. 10. GR AMXNEiE. Pl.end.ph. 
F. Agrostide^:. Rachis panicled ; panicle sometimes 
contracted, spikeshape ; locustce solitary, one-flowered ; 
glumes and glumelles of nearly the same consistence, often 
keeled ; lower spatkellule awned or awnless ; upper some- 
times 2-keeled ; styles 2. 
XLI. 82. CHILOCHLOA. Beauvois. Cals-taiL 
Spathelles alternate, unequal, acute, longer than the 
flowrets, the edge and back often pilose ; glumelles awnless, 
rather cartilaginous ; rudiment of an abortive flowret pedi- 
celled, threadshape ; upper spatkellule notched'; lodicule 
lanceolate, not notched, bald ; style short, 2-parted; stigmata 
villous; cariopsis detached, not furrowed. — Spike branched, 
cylindrical. 
1. Chilochloa aspera. Rough cats-tail. 
Spike cylindrical, lobed, loose; glumes naked, thickened 
above; glumelles blunt; culm branchy. 
Phleum paniculafum, Huds. FI. Angl. 26, omitting the synonyms, 
Phaia.fi s paniculata, Aiton Hort. Kew. 6, 87. 
Phalaris aspera, Retz Obs. 414. 
Phleum asperum, Villars Delph. 1, 61. 
Chilochloa aspera, Pal. de Beauvois , 37. 
Fields, walls, and heaths; annual; June and July. 
Root fibrous; culms 9 in. high; leaves smooth, the upper- 
most very short; sheaths inflated, smooth; ligula long, acute; 
spike stiff, rather acute ; peduncles verticillate ; glumes 
with very short awns, keeled, gibbous above, edge opake, 
very bluntly truncated; smell like that of anthoxanthum. 
2. Chilochloa Boehmeri. Boekmer’s cats-tail . 
Spike cylindrical, lobed; spathelles rather smooth, inner 
edge turned up ; spathellules acute ; sheaths slightly bellied ; 
culm not branched. 
Phalaris phleioides, Lin. S. P. 80. 
Phleum phalaroides, Koel. Gram. 182. 
Phleum Boehmeri, Wibel Werth. 125. 
Sandy fields; perennial; June and July. 
Root fibrous; culm mostly single, purple, shining, 18 in. 
high ; leaves and sheaths rather rough ; spike dense, ovate- 
cylindrical. 
3. Chilochloa arenaria. Sand cats-tail. 
Spike ovate, lanceolate, scarcely branched, obtuse ; spa- 
thelles ciliated; spathellules short, torn-edged; sheaths bel- 
lied ; culm branchy. 
