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CVII. GRAMINE2E. 
\_PhragmUes. 
glume, leaves scabrous broadly linear suddenly acute minutely 
serrate, sheaths flat sharply carinate scabrous, lower part of 
the culm slightly compressed two-edged. E. B. S. t. 2684. 
Glen Sannox, on the ascent of Goat-Fell from Loch Rannoch, Isle 
of Arran, Scotland: Mr. Stuart Murray ( 1826). 7J- . 7. — This has 
been cultivated ever since 1826 (from the roots brought by Mr. 
Murray, and who alone has found it) in the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden, where it preserves all its characters. Panicle with many, 
erect, rather rigid branches. Spikelets much longer and larger than 
in A. alpina, the larger glume scarcely reaching half-way to the sum- 
mit : in A. pratensi.i and A. alpina Sm. the larger glume is about two 
thirds (or more) of the length of the whole spikelet. 
5. A . pubescens L. ( downy O .) ; panicle erect nearly simple, 
spikelets erect of about 2 or 3 florets scarcely longer than the 
glumes, lower leaves flat downy not scabrous at the edge, sheaths 
downy. E. B. t. 1640. Trisetum Pers.: Parn. Gr. t. 53. 
Dry pasture, especially in chalky or limestone countries. 2/.. 6, 7. 
*** Smaller plume 1 -nerved, larger 3 -ribhed. Outer plumella keeled 
•with faint lateral nerves, ending in two bristles. Spikelets erect. 
Ovary glabrous. Caryopsis not furrowed. Ligide short and 
obtuse. Perennial plants. 
6. A. Jlavescens L. (yellow O ') ; panicle much braifched lax, 
spikelets of about 3 florets equal in length to the longer of the 
very unequal glumes, outer glumella with two terminal bristles, 
lower leaves and sheaths hairy. E. B. t. 952. Trisetum Beauv. : 
Parn. Gr. t. 54. 
Dry meadows and pastures, frequent. 2(. 7. — This has the smallest 
flowers of all our species, and may readily be distinguished by that 
circumstance as well as by the outer glumella, and the glumes. Pedicels 
of the florets downy with a small tuft of hairs at the apex. Terminal 
floret abortive, reduced to a stalked bristle, hairy at its base. 
jj Styles elongate. 
34. Piiragmites Trin. Reed. (Tab. VIII. f. 31.) 
Panicle loose. Spikelets distichous, with 1 — 5 distant perfect 
florets and a barren one at the base, which are all enveloped in 
long silky hairs attached to the rachis of the spikelet. Glumes 
2, membranous, unequal, shorter than the floret, the lower 
much smaller. Glumellas 2, membranous ; outer ending in a long 
subulate awnless point. — Name: eppaypirnc, materials for an 
enclosure; these reeds being used for that purpose. 
1. P. communis Trin. ( common R.); panicle spreading, spike- 
lets coloured usually 3 — 5-flowered longer than the glumes. 
