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four, five or fix Feet long ; the Leaves are (hotter 
and narrower * the top is much fpread, having di- 
vers Ramifications, with many branched chaffy liars 
coming forth at a Joint, btoadelt below, and fpring- 
ing fmall upwards. 
Great Corn Oat-Grafs. 
CLV %. Gramen Avenaceum incamrn , Great 
hoary Oat Grafs. It has fhort narrow Leaves, fome- 
what hairy, and a little hoary withal. The Stalk 
has but few Joints. The Panicle is fpread, like the 
Lift but leffer, and is fomewhat hoary. This is 
fometimes found leffer ; and grow both of them 
in the Borders of Corn-fields, both in EJfex and 
^ CLVI 4. Gramen Avenaceum Fratenfe , Meadow 
Oaten Grafs. It has many Leaves growing next 
the Root, which are long and narrow •, and the 
Stalk is leffer and lowet than any of the former, but 
the Panicles or Ears Hand at top, leffer fpread, and 
not hoary, every one upon its own Foot-ftalk. 
CLVII 5. Gramen Avenaceum fquamofa gluma , 
Scaley-ear’d Oaten Grafs. It has narrow Leaves, 
eight or nine Inches long, a little hairy. The Stalk 
is (lender, and has fuch alike Panicle as the latt ; 
but that the fcaley Ears Hand fingle, every one up 
on its own Threadlike Foot-ftalk. 
CLVIII.' 6. Gramen Avenaceum pmnata longtuj- 
cula fpica. Winged Oaten Grafs. It has a flender 
Stalk higher or lower, according to the Place and 
Goodnefs of the Soil. The Leaves are narrower 
than the laft. The Panicle is fomewhat long, but 
fmall, and not much fpread, each Part being, as it 
were, winged or divided into feveral pieces, upon 
one Rib or Foot-ftalk. 
CL 1 X. 7. Gramen Avenaceum fihcea Famcula 
Xerampelina , Red Fern like Grafs. It has red lhi- 
ning Stalks, a Foot high. The Leaves are foft and 
narrow. The Panicle at the top is three or tour 
Inches long, of a whitifh green color, divided into 
many winged Branches, many Parts being fee on both 
fi les the Branch, and each Part divided, like a Fern 
' "CLX 8- Gramen Avenaceum murorum erelium , 
1 \ aright Wall Oat Grafs. It grows upright, fome- 
times a Span, and fometimes a Foot high. It has 
as many Leaves almoft as any Grafs. The lpiked 
Head is three ot lour Inches long, and fparied or 
divided, each fmall Ear being bearded. It is often 
found upon old Mud-walls which commonly cn* 
dole Fields. 
CLXI. 9. Gramen Avenaceum fupinum Arvenje , 
Low Meadow Oat Grafs. Its Leaves are as fmall 
as the laft, an Inch' or Inch and half long. The 
Stalks are flender and weak, leaning downwards, 
with a few bearded Husks, and Spike- fafnioned at 
t0P CLXII. 10. Gramen Avenaceum fupinum floj. cu- 
lts fecalinis , Long-winged Oat Grafs with Rie like 
Flowers. It fprings with many Stalks, but they lel- 
dom rife up to be a Foot and half high •, are full of 
Joints, and have fmall lhort Leaves on them, of a 
whitifh green color. The tops are replenilhed with 
four or five Oat like Heads, but more winged, and 
with (hoit Awnes, fomewhat hard, and flowering 
like Rif. 
CLXIII. 11. Gramen Avenaceum exile , Joins 
mollicel/ls. Small foft-leav'd Oat Grafs. It is very 
like the Gramen exile durus , lo that it may be ea- 
fily miftaken tor it, and differs therefrom only in 
the Leaves, thefe being longer, and foft, as the whole 
Plant is, and not above halt a Foot high, and fpiked 
it its top, its parts being alfo winged. 
CLX 1 V. 12. Gramen Avenaceum altera alteri 
irmatum , Small Oat-Grafs one head fet in another. 
It is a fine fmall Grafs, and much refembles the 
Gramen Britaniaim Maritimum , having divers hard 
Hair like Leaves, with very lmall Stalks, a Span, 
or eight or nine Inches high , fome of which bear 
their fmall Iharp Husks at their tops only, as fome 
others do , and others of them out of a Tuft of 
Leaves in the middle of the Stalk fend forth ano- 
ther fhort Stalk, with fuch like fharp Husks on them 
as on the other. 
CLXV. 13. Gramen Avenaceum Montanum Clu- 
fij Mountain Oat-Grafs with hoary hush. It has 
a Root confining of feveral long Fibres, the Stalks 
are flender and jointed , a Foot and half high, with 
very narrow and long Leaves, and at tire tops a long 
fpiked head, bowing the head clofe , with woolly 
fhort husks , containing Seed like to thofe of Na- 
ked Oats. 
CLXVI. 14. Gramen Avenaceum Montanum al- 
terum , Another Mountain Oat-Grafs without hoary 
husks. It differs not in any thing from the former, 
but in the fpiked head, whofe husks are not hoary, 
as thofe others are. 
CLXV 1 I. 15. Gramen Avenaceum gluma rariore 
fpicatum , Spiked Oat-Grafs with afparfed,loofe,cbaf- 
jie Ear. It has a fibrous or Itringy Root, and hairy, 
running under Ground, it has flender, weak, clear 
Stalks, a Foot high, with long Leaves on them , 
and at their tops weak, bending, fpiky heads, thinly 
or fparfedly fet with fmall husks , containing Oat - 
like Seed or Grain. 
CLXVIII. 18. Gramen Avenaceum Xerampeli- 
num , Red Oat-Grafs. This is fomewhat like the 
latt, but with much lower Stalks, clear and reddilh, 
the’husks at the top of them are more upright and 
longer, having the like Oat Seed in them. A leffer 
fort hereof has been found about Greenwich , in a 
hungry Soil. 
CLXIX. 17. Gramen Avenaceum locujtK rubrts , 
Oat-Grafs with red husks. It has a Root which is 
long and white, like unto Dogs-Grafs , or gTuitcb- 
Grafs, creeping in the Ground , having next to the 
Earth narrow fhort Leaves, where the Stalk is red- 
dilh, but they are longer up higher •, the husks are 
fet lparfedly at the tops , all on one fide for the 
molt part , and are of a dark reddilh Purple color, 
but white within, witli fmall Grains within them. 
CLXX. 18. Gramen 
