148 TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Alopecurus. 
Root bulbous, the straw not upright, but ascending, and covered by the 
sheaths of the leaves. Leaves pointing in two opposite directions, smooth, 
except at the edges. Linn. Bulbs on the straw three or four, half an 
inch asunder, two spear-shaped scales to each bulbous joint. Straw not 
only ascending, but geniculate. Leaves narrower than in the preceding 
species. Ray Syn. 398. 3. {f e Whenever P. pratense is situated in a 
fluctuating soil, it acquires a bulb , by which its vital powers are sup¬ 
ported while the fibrous roots are deprived of their usual supplies. In 
this state it becomes the nodosum of authors, but on being removed to a 
thoroughly wet soii, it resumes the entirely fibrous root and luxuriant 
growth ofj oraten.se” E.) 
Bulbous-jointed Cat’s-tail Gbass. P. nodosum. Linn. With. Ed. 6. 
P. pratense y. Eng. FI. E.) On the top of a wall about six miles from 
Bath, on the Warminster road. Mr. Swayne. (Near to a spring in 
Woburn Park. Sinclair. E.) P. June.* 
P. alpi'num. Spike egg- cylindrical: (awns the length of the glumes. 
E. Bot. 519. E.)— Scheuch. Pr. 3. 1— FI. Dan. 213. 
Spike about one inch long, one-third of an inch broad, dark-coloured, pur¬ 
plish, especially towards the base. (Awns of the calyx as long as the 
husks; but in P. pratense much shorter. Root tuberous. Stem six to 
twelve inches high. E.) 
Altine Cat’s-tail Grass. Said to be found on Craigneulic, above Killin. 
Lightfoot. Mountains near Garway Moor. Dickson. (On Lochan y 
Gair abundant, and more sparingly on Ben Lawers. Mr. Brown. E.) 
P. Aug. 
(P. Miche'lii. Panicle nearly cylindrical, spike-like: glumes of the 
calyx spear-shaped, somewhat down-pointed, strongly fringed, 
and hairy. 
E. Bot. 2265. 
Stems a foot or more in height, slender, smooth, erect, leafy more than half 
way up. Leaves flat, pointed, rough-edged; their sheaths smooth, the 
upper ones especially lax or inflated. Stipula short, blunt. Valves of the 
blossom fringed, unequal, blunt, shorter than the calyx. Stigmas slender, 
loosely feathered. 
Miciielian Cat’s-tail Grass. P. Michelii. Allion. Schrad. Disco¬ 
vered by Mr. G. Don, on rocky parts of the mountain of Clova, Angus- 
shire. E. Bot. P. July. E.) 
ALOPECIJ'RUS.t {Cal. two-valved : Bloss. one valve, simple 
at the summit, awned at the base : Styles combined E.) 
A. PRATEN f sis. Spiked straw upright: calyx hairy : blossom awned. 
Oram. Pasc .— Curt. 296 — {Hort. Gram. — E. Bot. 7 59. E.)— Schreb. 19. 1 — 
Mus. Rust. iv. 2. 9— Stillingf. 2, out of blossom — Ger. Em. 11. 1— Park. 
1164. 3 —Spike , S$c. Leers 2 4. 
* (A scarce grass; of very inferior quality. Hort. Gram. E.) 
f (AAw7rr)|, a fox, and vpa, a tail; in allusion to the form of the spike. E.) 
