536 
evil. grajmlnEyE. [ Calamagrostis. 
Muddy salt-marshes, very rare. Near Cley, Norfolk ; coast of 
Essex ; near the powder magazine, Woolwich ; Saltmarsh pool, near 
Porchester, Hants (#here the culms are 6 feet long and decumbent 
below). If.. 7 The glumes are more acuminate than in P. 
Monspeliensis, and taper more gradually into the much shorter awn ; 
outer ghimella truncate ; both toothed at the points. — Long supposed 
peculiar to England, but forms of it have been found in Germany, 
Prance, and Spain, although described under different names. 
13. Calamagrostis Adans. Small-reed. (Tab. VIII. f. 12.) 
Panicle loose or close. Spikelets laterally compressed. 
Glumes 2, nearly equal, longer than the floret, which is sur- 
rounded by scaly hairs at the base. Glumellas 2, membran- 
ous ; outer one (sometimes shortly) awned at the point or back, 
very rarely awnless. Neuter floret wanting, or reduced to a 
short scale or pedicel. — Named from k aXagoc, a reed, and 
aypoorig, a genus of grasses. 
1. C. Epigeios Roth (Wood S.) ; panicle erect close, spike- 
lets crowded unilateral, glumes subulate their keel rough, 
outer glumella with a dorsal awn from about its middle 
nearly as long as the glumes, hairs longer than the glumellas, 
neuter florets none. Pam. Gr. t. 16. Arundo L. : E. B. 
t. 403. 
Moist shady places in England and Ireland, not very common. 
Dalrvmple Wood, Ayr; Isle of Mull, Argyleshire ; Braemar, Aber- 
deenshire; Scotland. If. 7. — Some authors still retain the name 
Arundo for this genus, but the Roman name Arundo was applied partly 
to Phragmites, partly to the Donax of the Greeks, not to any species 
of Calamayrostis. 
2. C. lanceolata Roth (purple-flowered S.) ; panicle erect 
loose, spikelets scattered spreading, glumes lanceolate their 
keel smooth, outer glumella with a very short terminal awn 
between the two segments of the bifid point and scarcely longer 
than it, hairs longer than the glumellas, neuter florets none. 
Pam. Gr. t. 84. Arundo Calamagrostis L. : E. B. t. 2159. 
Moist hedges, in fenny countries, rare. If. 6. — Panicle much 
smaller and looser than the last; spikelets more purple and shining. 
3. C. stricta Nutt, (narrow S.) ; panicle erect close, glumes 
lanceolate acute a little rough on the keel with 3 or more 
nerves, outer glumella bifid nearly as long as the upper glume 
longer than the hairs, with an awn equal to it in height inserted 
below the middle, neuter floret rudimentary, leaves of the 
barren shoots slender. Pam. Gr. t. 16. C. Lapponica Hook.: 
Pam. Gr. t. 85. Deyeuxia Kunth. Arundo stricta Schrad. : 
E. B. t. 2160. 
Bogs and marshes, very rare. Oakmere in Delamere Forest, 
Cheshire. White Muir Marsh and Rcscobie Loch, near Forfar, now 
