13^ 
trtcboida. 
FRIAi'JD. DIG\N. 128. Phlcum. 
radicans. 
di’oarica- 
tum, 
hinutum. 
» 
^prateme- 
*alpinttm, 
Gerardi. 
* panUula- 
tum. 
*crinitum. 
Panicle very much branched, fpreading:' branches 
branchlets fubdivided, capillary: culm dedins**’ 
jointed : leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite glabrous. 
Jamaica. Hifpaniola. Sloatiejam. l./. 72./, 3. 
According to Prof. Martyn, this is the fame as the lall. 
Panicled: culm branched, rooting: bafe of the leaves 
fheaths longitudinally ciliate. 
China Retz, olf, 4. p. 18. Willdcn. \,p, 354. 
Culm decumbent, leafy up to the panicle. 
Panicles Ihort, awnlefs : culm very much branched 
fpread : pedicels 2-llowered, one of them fhorter. 
Jamaica. Amixis. ccad. 5. p. 392. 
Panicle compound, capillary, , fpreading: culms 
fheaths briftly-hirfute : leaves lanceolate, point^*^' 
nerved, ftifF. 
Jamaica. S^jjartx. deftr, 173. Mart. DiB. n. 79. 
Differs from P, maximum chiefly in its lhagginefs. 
128. PHLEUM. 2-valvcd, i-flowered, 
file, linear, truncate, ending in a point, ind®^ 
ing, and longer than the corol. 
Cat' s- tail. ‘Timothy 
Spike cylindrical, very long: glumes ciliate on the bad’ 
with a very long awn. 
Moift paftures. Mart.f. ruft. t. 5. Moris./. 8. t. 4. f. t. 
2, Root tuberous : culms decumbent at the bafe. 
3. Root bulbous: culms decumbent at the bafe. 
Phi. nodofum. Sp. pi. 88. Flor. Dan. 380. 
Spike ovatc-cylindrica! ; awns about as long as thegluin^*' 
M mntains. Engl.Bot. 519. Flor. Dan. t. 213. 
Spike roundifli : glumes ciliate : culm fimple: fheaths*’^ 
the leaves ventricofe. 
European Alps. Jacq. ic.rar.l. r. 301. 
Panicle cylindrical, fpike-form: glumes naked, thicke''^^ 
upwards : culm branched. 
Meadows. Barr, ic, t. 28./. 2. Smith/. Britt, p. 70. 
Panicle fplked: glumes linear, fomewhat ventricofe at d**' 
bafe, rough, awned ; the awns capillary, very long- 
Sea marfhes. Schrei. gram. t. 20,/. 3. Moris, f. 8. t. 4./. 3 ' 
129 ' 
