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C. Stamens 3 (or very rarely 1) in some or all of the florets. 
Styles or stigmas 2. (Gen. 3 — 44.) 
a. Spihelets very rarely sessile and spiked , usually pedicellate and 
paraded, sometimes racemose. (Tab. IX. f. 42. d.) Panicle 
often very compact so as to resemble a spike. (Tab. IX. 
f. 42. c.) (Gen. 3—34.) 
* Spikelets with a single perfect floret, and no barren ones ; 
neuter florets, when present, either rudimentary or consisting 
of empty glumellas much smaller than the perfect ones. 
(Tab. VI. f. 3—13.) (Gen. 3 — 14.) 
■f Glumes 0. Stigmas elongated, plumose. 
3. Leersia Soland. Cut-grass. 
Panicle lax, often contracted. Spikelets compressed laterally. 
Glumes wanting. Glumellas 2, chartaceous, navicular, much 
compressed, awnless, inclosing the loose caryopsis ; lower one 
much the broader. Stamens 3 or 6, rarely 1. Styles short or 
elongated. — Named in honour of John Daniel Leers, a German 
botanist, who published in 1757 the Flora Herbornensis. 
1. L. oryzoides Sw. (European C.) ; panicle diffuse the 
branches wavy, spikelet half-elliptical strongly ciliate trian- 
drous, leaves very rough, ligule short. E. B. S. t. 2908. 
Ditches, drains of water, meadows, brooks, and pools; rare. Near 
Henfield, and Arundel, Sussex ; Mole river, Surrey ; Boldre river, 
near Brockenhurst Bridge, Hants. !(.. 8 — 10. — Styles shorter than 
the germen ; in L. Viryinica and L. Mexicana they are much longer 
ff Glumes 2. Styles elongated. Stigmas elongated, filiform. 
4. Alopecurus Linn. Fox-tail-grass. (Tab. VI. f. 3.) 
Panicle spike-like. Spikelets compressed laterally. Glumes 2, 
nearly equal, usually connate at the base, membranous, about 
as long as the floret. Glumella solitary, with a dorsal awn 
above the base. Styles elongated. Neuter florets 0. — Named 
from aXamyZ, a fox, and ovpa, a tail. 
1. A. agrestis L. (slender F.) ; culm erect scabrous above, 
panicle cylindrical acuminate, glumes acute almost glabrous 
united as far as the middle, awn more than twice the length of 
the glumella. E. B. t. 848 : Pam. Gr. t. 3. 
Fields and way-sides, in England ; scarcely indigenous in Scotland. 
0. 5 — 11. — Readily known by its annual root, attenuate panicles 
or spikes frequently of a purplish colour, and by the lanceolate acute 
ylumes united to the middle, which are glabrous, or a little rough at 
the keel. Glumella quite smooth. 
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