152 94>. Gastridium. 10. G RAMIN EzE. Tl.end.ph> 
Gramen pauiceum q. Panicum serotinum arvense, spica pyramidal* 
Tournefort, Raii Syn. 394, 4. 
Milium lendigei um, Lin. S. P. 91. 
Agrostis australis, Lin . Mant. 1,30. 
Agrostis rubra, Huds.ed. 1,26. 
Alopecurus ventricosus, Huds. FI. Angl. 28. 
Agrostis ventricosa, Gouan Hort. 39. 
Agrostis panicea, Lamarck Enc.Meth. 1, 58. 
Agrostis lendigera, De Land. Syn. FI. Gall. 1508. 
Sandy meadows and pastures; annual; August. 
Root fibrous; culm branchy, upright, very smooth; leaves 
flat, slender, short, bald, rough ; sheaths smooth ; ligula 
long, 2-parted; panicle greenish white; peduncles branched; 
locustce crowded. 
LIV. 95. POLYPOGON. Desfontaines, Beards . 
Glumes 1 -flowered ; spathelles alternate, nearly equal or 
lower largest, much longer than the spathellules, slightly 
nicked and with a long bristle at the tip ; spathellules car- 
tilaginous ; lower not notched, bristled below the tip ; upper 
2-cut, toothed ; bristle of the glumelle straight, herbaceous ; 
style 2-parted; stigmata villous; cariops'is free, not furrowed. 
— Panicle branched, contracted, nearly spikeshape. 
1. Polypogon littoralis. Shore beards . 
Spathellules smooth; bristle scarcely longer than the 
spathelles ; culm decumbent ; root creeping. 
Agrostis lutosa, Poiret Enc. Meth. Sup. 1,249. 
Agrostis littoralis, With. Bot. Arr. 2, 129. 
Polypogon littoralis, Smith Comp. FI. Br. 13. 
Salt marshes ; perennial ; August. 
Culm decumbent at bottom, 12 in. high, smooth; leaves 
broad, flat, rough ; ligula pubescent, torn ; panicle close, 
lobed ; locustce white, green or purple at the tip. 
2. Polypogon Monspeliensis. Montpelier beards. 
Spathellules pubescent, hispid; bristles 3 times as long 
as the spathelles ; culm erect; root fibrous. 
Gramen alopecuroides, q. Alopecurus maxima Anglica Parkinson, 
(1166), Raii Syn. 396,4. 
Alopecurus altera maxima Anglica paludosa, Ger. em . 88. 
Alopecurus Monspeliensis, Lin. S. P. 89. 
Alopecurus aristalus, Huds. FI. Angl. 28. 
Phleum crinitum, Schreb. Gram. 151. 
Agrostis panicea, Willd. S. P. 1 , 363. 
Agrostis tri-aristata, Knapp Gram. 23. 
