Pl. end. ph. 10. GR AMINE 2 E. 93. Calamagrostis. 151 
1 . Calamagrostis epigejos. Creeping reedgrass. 
Panicle upright ; locustce imbricate, bundled, facing one 
way; spatheiles longer than the spathellules, linear, bristled; 
bristle shorter than the hairs; leaves lanceolate; ligida 
long. 
Aruudo q. Gramen arundinaceum panicula molli spadicea majus, Raii 
Syn. 401,2. 
Gramen tomentosum arundinaceum, Ger. em. 9. 
Calamagrostis si ve Gramen tomentosum, Park, 1182, 
Arundo epigejos, Lin, S. P. 120. 
Arundo calamagrostis, Huds. FI. Angl. 54, 
Calamagrostis lanceolata, With. Bot. Arr. 122. 
Banks and damp woods ; perennial ; July. 
Root jointed, creeping; culms in bundles, upright, 6 feet 
high ; leaves very long, bald, dry, glaucous ; sheaths long, 
bald ; ligula lanceolate ; panicle manyflowered, oblong, 
green or blackish violet, becoming grey, woolly; locustce 
long, drooping. 
2 . Calamagrostis neglecla. Neglected reedgrass . 
Panicle upright, spread; locust cc upright, spread; spa- 
theiles the same length as the spathellules; bristles and hairs 
shorter than the spathellules ; leaves linear ; ligula very 
short, truncated. 
Arundo neglecta, Ehrh. Calam. 118. 
Arundo stricta, Schrad. Germ. 1,215. 
Calamagrostis neglecta, Flor. Wett. 1,84. 
Marshy places ; perennial; June. 
Root creeping; cidm 2 feet high, ascending, slender, 
bald ; leaves narrow, acute, rough above and on the edge, 
when dry convolute ; sheaths bald, ligula not notched ; 
panicle slender, 3 to 6 in. long, purplish or reddish brown ; 
glumes acute, not bristled. 
LIII. 94. GASTRIDIUM. Beauvois. Lentil-grass . 
Glumes 1 -flowered; spatheiles alternate, bellied at bot- 
tom, 3 times as long as the spathellules; lower largest; 
spathellules leathery, hardening ; lower 3 or 4-toothed, 
bristled beneath the tip ; upper 2-cut, toothed ; style short, 
2-parted ; stigmata hairy ; cariopsis husked. — Panicle 
branched, contracted, approaching to a spike shape. 
Gastridium auslrale. Southern lentil-grass , 
Bristle much longer than the spatheiles. 
