TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA, 
1. F. panicle simple, leaning one way ; spikelets ge- 
nerally 8 flowered, awned* Sp. pL 
Festuca octoflora, Walt. 
F. bromoides, Mich. 
An upright, simple-stemmed little grass, about nine or ten 
inches high, with the panicle leaning to one side. Near Cam- 
den in the sandy grass-lawns bordering the woods frequent ; 
and in the neighbourhood of Woodbury along all the roads 
running through dry sandy woods, abundant. When old it 
assumes a deep brown colour. Annual. May. 
2* F. panicle slender, appressed ; spikelets 4-flower- 
ed, awned, hairy ; flowers monandrous. Elliot* 
F. quadriflora, Walt. , 
Hairy -Jlowered Festuca. 
A small, slender grass, from IJ to 4 inches high, generally 
found growing with Aira praecox, in the sandy soils of Jersey. 
Not rare. Biennial. June. 
3. F. panicle long, loose, branches simple, spikelets 
adpressed, round-linear many-flowered, flosculi 
awnless striate, culm decumbent, leaves very 
glabrous. Willd. 
Icon. Eng. bot. 1520. 
River-Festuca. 
In ditches and purling rivulets in Jersey, about ten miles 
south-east of this city, and somewhat east of Woodbury . Pe- 
rennial. June. 
4. F. panicle somewhat diffuse, nutant, very much 
branched, loose ; spikelets ovate-lanceolate acute, 
flosculi cylindric obsoietely nerved. Smith. 
F. pratensis, Willd. 
Icon. Engl. bot. 1593. 
Tall Fescue-grass. 
In meadows and moist low grounds, every where common. 
Yields fine fodder. Perennial. Beginning of July. 
