414 
Gramine®. 
654. Vulpia. Vulpia. I, 5. Ill, 40. 
]. Lower glumella long-ciliate. Festuca myurus Koch.— 
Sandy places; Geneva, very rare. 6 ciliata Link. 2492. 
— Lower glumella not ciliate ..... 2 
2. Stem 30—40cm, leafy up to the panicle. Panicle elongated, 
drooping at the top. Upper glume distinctly shorter 
than the glumella of the fl. immediately above it. Festuca 
myurus L. ex Duval-Jouve.—Dry, sandy and grassy 
places; Z., southern and western Switz.; and sometimes 
adventitious in other parts. 5 pseudomyurus Soy.-Will. 2493. 
— Stem 20—30 cm, leafless below the panicle. Panicle 
shorter, erect. Upper glume almost reaching the awn 
of the next glumella. Festuca bromoides Sm. Koch not 
L.—As the last; Geneva, Bale, Rheinfelden. 5 
sciuroides Rchb. 2494. 
655. Festuca. Fescue. Ill, 63, 70.*) 
1. Shoots much thickened at the base (almost like a bulb). 
Spikelets brownish yellow.—Alp.; Tess. 6 
spadicea L, 2495. 
-— Shoots not thickened at the base . ... 2 
2. Ls (also when fresh) all, or at least the rad. ones, 
f o 1 d e d -s e t ace o u s or fo 1 de d-fi 1 if o r m . 3 
— Ls, at least when fresh, all flat (comp. F. pulchella) 13 
3. Ligule very short, bi-auricled, i. e. prolonged on 
each,side to a small lobule ..... 4 
— Ligule truncate or elongated and oblong, but not bi- 
auricled. (A high Alpine pi.: Spikelets gen. variegated 
with violet, more rarely yellowish) ... 11 
4. Ls all folded-setaceous. Shoots (barren l.-clusters) intra- 
vaginal ( i. e. found during growth between the axil and 
sheath); rt-stock consequently forming a de n se tuft 5 
— Caul, ls flat, or at any rate channelled-open (but some¬ 
times very narrowly). Shoots partly, at any rate, extra- 
vaginal (i. e. springing obliquely and piercing the 
sheath). Type of F. rubra ..... .9 
— Comp. F. rubra trichophylla (with filiform ls, ’but stoloni- 
ferous), F. rubra fallax (densely cmspitose, but caul, ls 
flat), and F. violacea genuina (densely csespitose and ls 
almost filiform). 
5. The closed lower half of the sheath with a deep, narrow 
furrow. Ovary hairy at the top. Stem 50—80 cm. Ls 
filiform, long. Panicle lax, often tinted with amethyst 
blue. Spikelets unarmed, rarely with very short awns. 
*) Comp. N. Beitr. Ill, 36. 
