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Jy the length of a finger. Native of Portugal, on barren- 
hills. 
18. Fefluca calycina, or bearded-leaved fefcue-grafs : 
panicle contracted; fpikelets linear; calyx longer than 
the flofcules ; leaves bearded at the bafe. According to 
Cavanilles, who obferved it near Madrid, a fhort fibrous 
root produces (lender culms from four to fix inches in 
height, fomewhat proftrate at the bafe, but from the firfl 
joint upright ; joints purple. Native of Spain; flower¬ 
ing there in May ; here in June and July. 
19. Fefluca mifera: panicle condenfed ; glumes awn- 
ed, fcabrous, culm-kneed broken. Native of Japan. 
ao. Fefluca fpinofa, or thorny-branched fefcue-grafs : 
becoming (hrubby ; branches and branchlets thorny ; pe¬ 
dicels prickly. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
21. Fefluca uniglumis, or fea fefcue-grafs : panicle 
almoft Ample, condenfed, directed, one way avvned; ca¬ 
lyx one-valved ; flofcules diflant. Root annual; culms 
many, from fix inches to a foot in height, oblique, round, 
fmooth, fomewhat branched. Inhabits the fea-coaft, in 
loofe fand ; flowering in May and June. Found by Dr. 
Sherard, in Jerfey ; by Mr. Dale, in Merfey ifiand ; and 
by Dillenius, on the coaft of Sutfex. 
22. Fefluca Cambrica, or Welfli fefcue-grafs ; panicle 
directed one way, oblong, upright, branched ; (pikelets 
avvned, fmooth ; leaves flattifh, naked. Root perennial; 
culm about a foot in height, oblique, round, leafy, fmooth, 
having two or three joints. Allied to F. duriufcula. 
Grows on the higheft mountains about Llanber's, in 
Wales, plentifully ; flowers in July and Auguft. 
23. Fefluca Indica, or Indian fefcue-grafs : panicle 
contradled, upright; fpikelets comprefled, fomewhat 
awned, with about fix flowers. This fpecies has the ap¬ 
pearance of a poa; culms three feet high and more, the 
thicknefs of a pigeon’s quill, (freaked, leafy. It is dif- 
tinguifhed from far by its bluifh-green colour. One half 
of the panicle flowers and expands, then contracts whilft 
(he other half flowers. Native of Tranquebar in the 
Eaft Indies, in the rice-grounds, with eredt culms in 
flooded lands, and decumbent ones in dry places. 
24. Fefluca fcabra, or rugged-flowered fefcue-grafs: 
panicle diredted the fame way, fquee*zed clofe, eredl; 
fpikelets comprefled, fix-flowered ; florets rugged. This 
grafs is a foot and a half high or more, with a round, 
fmooth, ftriated culm, and involuted leaves. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was fent by Bulow. 
25. Fefluca pungens : fpike glomerate, ovate; fpike¬ 
lets fix-flowered, columnar, lanuginofe ; leaves involute, 
rigid. Culm creeping; branches eredt, divided at the 
top commonly into four divaricated branchlets, a fpan 
long, and the thicknefs of a pigeon’s quill; the internodes 
an inch in length ; leaves alternate, in two rows, fpreading 
very much, pungent, very fmooth, very finely flreaked. 
26. Fefluca loliacea, or darnel fefcue-grafs: fpiked ; 
fpikelets alternate, feflile, comprefled, awnlefs. In de¬ 
ference to the judgment of Mr. Curtis, who'has beftowed 
fo much laudable attention on this ufeful tribe of grades, 
the darnel fefcue-grafs is here given as a diflinffl fpecies, 
though Mr. Hudfon regarded it as a variety of the fitii- 
tans, and others of the pratenfis. In root, (talk, leaves, 
and habit, it comes fo near lolium perenne, or common 
ray-grafs, as fcarcely to be diftinguiflied from it, but it is 
ufually higher by about one-third ; the flowers in gene¬ 
ral grow in a Ample fpike, from eight inches to a foot 
in length, bending a little towards the top ; the fpikelets 
are feflile, near an inch long, diverging from and for the 
moft part placed obliquely to the rachis, fometimes on 
peduncles of different lengths, the lowermofl about an 
inch long, nearly round, flattened a little on the fides, 
running out to a point; the uppermoft (liorter and fome¬ 
what broader, containing from ten to fifteen flowers; 
calycine valves unequal in fize, the innermofl frequently 
final], lateral, and fometimes wanting. The fpike is not 
unfrequently branched; then it approaches nearer to F. 
pratenfis, but may be diftinguiflied from it by the length 
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of its fpiked panicle ; moft commonly the branches grow 
from the bafe of the fpike, fometimes from the middle, 
but fometimes the fpikelets are (liorter, and two or three 
grow together from the fame point; when the fpikelets 
are (horter and broader than ufual, it refembles lolium 
perenne fo much, as frequently to be taken for the fame ; 
and may be confidered, indeed, as forming the connefting 
link between that genus and this. It is found plentifully 
in moifl fertile meadows, and flowers about the fame 
time with the pratenfis. It is a hardy perennial of very 
quick growth, producing'a crop fomewhat fimilar to ray- 
grafs, but larger, arid fucceeding beft in a moifl foil; it 
is, however, liarfh and ftalky. This and the elatior do 
not feem to produce feeds, in a ftate of cultivation at lead. 
May not this circumftance arife from their running much 
at the root ? See -*gilops, Agrostis, Andropogon, 
Avena, Bromus, Dactylis, Poa, Stipa, Triti- 
CUM, &C. 
FES'FUCINE, adj. [ fejluca , Lat.J Straw-colour, be¬ 
tween green and yellow.— Therein may be difcovered a 
little infed: of a fejlucine or pale green, refeinbling a locuft 
or grafshopper. Brown. 
I'ES'TUCOUS, adj. [ fejluca , Lat.] Formed of draw. 
—We fpeak of draw, or feflucous diviflons, lightly drawn 
over with oil. Brown. 
FES'TUS (Pompeius), a Latin grammarian, who wrote 
an abridgement of Perrins Flaccus de Verborum Signification. 
Of this work, which Jofeph Scaliger has pronounced one 
ot the moft ufeful relative to the Latin language, there 
have been feveral editions, the beft of which is Dacier’s, 
in ufum Delphtni, Par. iti&i, and Ami 1699. It is fup« 
pofed that Feftus lived tinder the Chriftian emperors, to¬ 
wards the clofe of the fourth century. 
FES'TUS (Portius), fucreeded Felix as governor of 
Judea, under Claudius, A. D. 60. Ads xxiv. 27. He 
died about two years afier. 
FE'SUL/fE, anciendy a town of Etruria, where Sy 11 a 
a colony. 
To FET, v.a. To fetch ; to go and bring. Not in nfe. 
Get home with thy fewel, make ready to fet. 
The fooner the ea'fier carriage to get. Tujfer. 
FET, f. [ fait, Fr. a part or portion.] A piece. Not 
in ufe: 
The bottom clear 
Now laid with many a fet 
Of feed-pearl, ere (lie bath’d her there 
Was known as blajk as jet. Drayton. 
To FETCH, v. a. pret .fetched-, anciently fet, unlefs it 
come from to fet ; [peccan, pertan, Sax.] To go and 
bring;—We will take men to fetch viftuals for the peo¬ 
ple. Judges.— Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence 
two kid goqts. Gcnefis. 
Draw forth the monfters of th’ abyfs profound. 
Or fetch th? aerial eagle to the ground. Pope. 
To derive ; to draw : 
On, you noblefl Englifh, 
Whofe blood is fetch'd from fathers of war proof. Shakef. 
To flrike at a diftance.—The conditions of weapons, and 
their improvements, are the fetching afar off; for that 
outruns the danger, as it is feen in ordnance and mulkets. 
Bacon. —To bring to any date by fome powerful opera¬ 
tion.—In fmells we fee their great and fudden effedt in 
fetching men again, when they fwoon. Bacon .—To draw 
within any confinement or prohibition.—General terms 
may fufficiently convey to the people what our intentions 
are, and yet not fetch us within the compafs of the ordi¬ 
nance. Sanderfon. —To produce by fome kind of force.__ 
An human foul without education is like marble in the 
quarry, which (hews none of its beauties till the (kill of 
the polilher fetches out the colours. Spectator. —To per¬ 
form : it is applied to motion or caufe.—To come to that 
place they mu Q. fetch a compafs three miles on the right 
hand through a foreft. Xnolies. 
When, 
