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Po1ypogon.~\ 
acuminate shorter than the awn of the gluniella. Pam. Gr. 
t. 86. Milium L. : E. B. t. 1107. Agrostis australis L. 
Gastridium Beauv. 
Places where water has stagnated generally near the sea, rare. 
Gillingham and Cley, Norfolk ; Little Baddow and Great Leighs, 
Essex; Isle of Sheppey and Erith, Kent; Surrey; Sussex; Isle of 
Wight (abundant) ; Weymouth, Dorset; Devon; Somerset; Glou- 
cester. Glamorgan and N. Wales. If. 6 — 10. — Culms 4 — 8 
inches high, with numerous glossy florets , singularly swollen at the 
base. 
11. Sti'fa Linn. Feather-grass. (Tab. VI. f. 11.) 
Panicle erect, contracted (but not spike-like). Glumes 2, 
longer than the floret, membranous. Floret stipitate. Glumel- 
las cartilaginous ; outer one involute, terminated with a very 
long twisted awn ; awn jointed at the base, and finally separating 
at the joint. Neuter florets 0. — Named from orumi, tow of flax: 
from the flaxen or silky appearance of the common species of 
the gardens. 
[1. S. * penndta L. ( common F .); leaves rigid setaceous 
grooved, awns exceedingly long feathery to the point. E. B. t. 
1356 : Pam. Gr. t. 87. 
Limestone rocks overhanging the valley of Long Sleddale 6 m. N. 
of Kendal, Westmoreland : Dr. Richardson and Mr. Lawson ( Dillen . ). 
It. 6. — This beautiful grass, if it were not then an escape from 
a garden, has not been found since 1720.] 
12. Polypogon Desf. Beard-grass. (Tab. VI. f. 10.) 
Panicle compact, spike-like. S pikelets laterally compressed. 
Glumes 2, equal, longer than the floret, each notched and 
with a long straight awn at the extremity. Glumellas un- 
equal; the outer obtuse, usually awned almost at the very 
extremity. Neuter florets 0. — Named from woXuc, many , and 
irwywv, a heard ; from the bearded appearance of the panicle. 
1. P. Monspeliensis Desf. (annual B.) ; awns 2 — 3 times as 
long as the rather obtuse rough glumes, root annual. Pam. 
Gr. t. 11. Agrostis panicea Ait. : E. B. t. 1704. 
Rare, in moist pastures near the sea. Hampshire ; Purfleet, 
Essex; Northfleet Hope, Kent; Cley, Norfolk: Gloucester; Dur- 
ham (on ballast hills). Guernsey. Inverkeithing, Fifeshire. Q. 
6 — 8. — Culms usually 12 — 18 inches, but in Hampshire are some- 
times found 4 feet high. 
2. P. littoralis Sm. (perennial B.) ; awns equal in length to 
the almost glabrous acute glumes, root perennial. Pam. Gr. 
t. 81. Agrostis Sm. : E. B. t. 1251. 
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