evil. graminejE. 
531 
Phalaris."] 
nicle ovate obtuse, glumes ovate abruptly acute hairy united 
at the base, awns scarcely longer than the glumella, upper 
sheath inflated thrice as long as its lanceolate leaf. E. B. 
t. 1126 : Pam. Gr. t. 4. 
Loch-na-gar, Aberdeenshire. Sides of streams among the Clova 
and Canlochen mountains, frequent, particularly near Loch Wharral, 
banks of the Glashie burn, Glen Prosen, and the marshy ground be- 
tween Clova and Loch Lee. If.. 7, 8. — This plant is at first sight 
distinguishable by its ovate panicle and short broad upper leaf with 
its inflated sheath, as also by the short awns. The late Mr. Brown dis- 
covered this on Loch-na-gar, not, as stated in the Flor. Scotica, on 
Ben Lawers, where it has not been met with. 
5. Phalaris Linn. Canary-grass. (Tab. VI. f. 4.) 
Panicle spike-like or spreading. S pikelets laterally compressed. 
Glumes 2, nearly equal, erect, navicular, membranous, longer 
than the floret. Glumellas 2, awnless, glabrous or equally 
hairy, ultimately hardening and investing the caryopsis. Styles 
elongated. Neuter florets 1 — 2, rudimentary, sessile, and scale- 
like. — Named from <pa\og, shining; canary-seed being very 
glossy. 
* Glumes winged on the keel. Panicle spihe-like. 
1. * P. Canariensis L. (cultivated C.) ; panicle spike-like 
ovate, wing of glumes entire at the point, neuter florets 2 scale- 
like half the length of the perfect one. E. B. t. 1310 : Para. 
Gr. t. 9. 
Naturalized in many parts of England and Scotland, but not a 
native of Europe. ©. 7. — Culm 1 — 2 ft. high, glaucous. Leaves 
broad. Spikes handsome, composed of large, pale, yellow-green 
glumes, marked with deeper lines and singularly keeled at the back. 
Canary-seed, as we see it, is the seed of this plant invested closely with 
the pericarp, and that again with the hardened glumellas, thus 
occasioning its glossy appearance and pointed form. 
[P. paradoxa L. an allied species, but with a blunt toothed wing to 
the glumes, and the two neuter florets rudimentary and much shorter 
than the perfect one, was found in a field near Swanage, Dorset, in 
1847, but disappeared the next year. It is a south of Europe species.] 
** Glumes not winged at the keel, panicle with spreading branches. 
Digraphis. 
2. P. arundindcea L. ( Reed C .); panicle erect its branches 
patent, florets crested secund, neuter florets consisting of 1 — 2 
small hairy valves. E. B. t. 402, and t. 2160. f. 2. (under 
Calamag. stricta ) : Pant. Gr. t. 9. Digraphis Trin. 
Sides of lakes and rivers, common. 2f. 7,8. — A variety with 
a a 2 
