PI. end.ph. 
10. GRAMINEiE. 84*. Phalaris. 14*1 
b. Panicle loose ; keel of the spathelle sharp . 
2. Phalaris arundinacea . Reedy phalaris . 
Panicle upright, oblong, bellied, contracted ; locustce 
facing one way ; spathelles acute ; leaves flat ; culm upright ; 
root creeping. 
Gramen ariindinaceura, acerosa gluma, Jerseyanum, Raii Syn. 400, 2. 
Phalaris arundinacea, Lin. S. P. 80. 
Arundo colorata, Soland&r in Aiton Ilort. Kevo. 1, 116. 
Calamagrostis colorata, Sibthorp FI. Ox. 37. 
Typhoides arundinacea, Moench. Meth. 99. 
Baidigera arundinacea, Flor. Wetter. 99. 
Calamagrostis variegata, With. Bot.Arr. 2, 124. 
Bogs and river-sides ; perennial; July. 
Roots in tufts; culm upright, 3 feet high, knots smooth; 
leaves very broad, flat ; sheaths round, long ; ligula short, 
obtuse ; panicle large, glomerate ; peduncles in pairs or 
threes; involucrum small, white; locustce compressed, whitish 
or purplish ; ribs 3, green. 
0. glauca. Leaves glaucous. 
y. picta. Leaves elegantly streaked with white. 
Ladies ’ laces. Gardeners’ garters. Ribband grass. 
XLIV. 85. ALOPECURUS. Theophrastus. Foxtail . 
Spathelles alternate, lower larger, distinct or grown to- 
gether at the bottom; spathellule one, pitchershape, split 
on one side, awned below the middle ; lodicule linear, not 
nicked, bald; style 2=parted, nearly simple at bottom; stig- 
mata very long, nearly aspergillifbrm.-— Spi&e compound, 
stiff, cylindrical, not involucrated ; peduncles very short. 
a. Spathelles soldered together above the middle ; keel 
dilated, bald above ; awn long. 
1. Alopecurus agrestis. Wild foxtail . 
Spathelles acute, rough, almost bald; spike cylindrical, 
attenuated, acute; peduncles not branched, 1 -flowered; culm 
erect, rather rough. 
Gramen myosuroides majus, spica longiore, aristis rectis, Raii Syn. 397,1. 
Gramen alopecuroides minus, Ger. em. 10. 
Gramen alopecuroides spica longa majus et minus, Park . 1169. 
Alopecurus agrestis, Lin. S. P. 89. 
Alopecurus myosuroides, Muds. ed. 1,23. 
Great mouse-tail grass. 
Fields and ways; annual; July. 
Roots fibrous ; culm 18 in. high, leafy ; leaves rough above ; 
ligula lanceolate; spike 3 in. long, slender, purplish. 
