Pl.end.ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 82. Chilochloa. 139 
Gramen typhinum maritimum minus, Raii Syn. 398, 4, 
Phleum arenarium, Lin. S. P. 88. 
Phalaris phleioides 0, Aiton Hort. Kew. 1,86. 
Phalaris arenaria, Huds. FI. Angl. 23. 
Chilochloa arenaria, Pal. de lieauvois. 
Sandy places near the sea ; annual ; June. 
Roots fibrous ; culm many, leafy below, naked above, 
9 in. high, purple, shining; leaves glaucous; sheaths smooth ; 
spike scarcely lobed. 
4. Cliilochloa hirsuta . Rough cats-lail. 
Panicle cylindrical, lobed, loose; spaihelles lanceolate, 
keeled, ciliate hairy, with very short bristles ; spathellules 
oblong, hairy. 
Phleum phalarideum. Fill. Delph. 2, 60. 
Phleum Michelii, Allioni Pedem. 2138. 
Phalaris alpina. Be Cand. Syn. FI. Fr. 1489. 
Chilochloa Michelii, Pal.de Beauvois y t. 7, f. 2. 
Alpine rocks ; perennial ; July. 
Root creeping, thickened above; culm erect, very smooth, 
18 in. high; leaves smooth, edge membranous, white; 
sheaths lax ; upper very long, purplish ; ligula obtuse ; pa- 
nicle soft, green or purplish. 
XL1I. 83. PHLEUM. Pliny. Timothy . 
Spaihelles alternate, boatshaped, compressed, nearly equal, 
twice as long as the spathellules, truncated at the tip, 
pointed with a prominent, bristlelike, intermediate rib; 
glumelle awnless; lower spathellule truncated, many toothed, 
inclosing the upper twotoothed spathellule; lodicule lan- 
ceolate, acute, not nicked, bald ; ovary beaked ; beak in- 
clined ; style 2-parted ; stigmata nearly aspergilliform, vil- 
lous ; cariopsis free, not furrowed, beaked ; beak 2-parted. 
— Spike cylindrical. 
1. Phleum pralense. Meadow timothy. 
Spike cylindrical, very long ; spathelle much longer 
than the beard ; keel ciliated ; culm upright ; root fibrous. 
Gramen typhinum majus sive primum, Ger. em. 11 ; Raii Syn. 398, 1. 
Gramen typhinum medium seu vulgatissimum, Park. 1170. 
Phleum pratense, Lin. S. P. 87. 
Fields and pastures; perennial; July to September. 
Culm 3 feet high, naked above, smooth, bald; leaves flat, 
very acute, bald, rough; ligula obtuse; spike 3 to 5 in. 
long, green, rather blunt; locustce very much crowded. 
(3. viviparum. Glumes and glumelles changed into leaves. 
y. minus . Culm short, not bulbose at the base. 
