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bulbosus. For a similar instance of a fibrous root being converted into 
an egg-shaped bulb, see Phleum pratense. E.) P. June.* 
Var. 2. Awns longer than the blossom; root bulbous; sheaths wider than 
the thickness of the straw. Awns barely twice the length of the calyx. 
Anthers purple, changing to brown yellow. 
On a bog at the source of the Yar, Fresh Water Gate, Isle of Wight. 
May. 
Var. 3. Awns more than twice the length of the blossom. Root bulbous. 
In flat meadows at Highbridge, in the parish of Huntspill, Somersetshire. 
June. 
(A. fui/vus. Stem ascending, bent at the joints; spike compound, 
cylindrical; glumes obtuse, hairy; awn the length of the calyx; 
anthers roundish. 
E. Bot. 1467. 
Awns very fine and soft, not longer than the blossom. Root fibrous. 
Tab. Hist. 1. p. 512—C. B. Th. 4,2—Ger. Em. 14. 2—Park. 127 5. 7. 
From the fineness and shortness of the awns this has the appearance of 
being awnless. Leaves broader than in any of the preceding, sheathing 
the straw quite to the top; the sheath much wider than the thickness of 
the straw, and widest upwards. Spike-like panicle cylindrical, two 
inches long, a quarter of an inch broad, pale green. Anthers fine orange, 
so that the flowering plant may be distinguished at some distance. (Dr. 
Withering long ago suspected this to be a distinct species, in which 
opinion Sir J. E. Smith has recently concurred, adding that the anthers 
are totally different in form from those of A. geniculatus, being not half 
so long, nor of a linear shape, but very short, thick, and almost round, 
deeply cloven at each end, bursting by an oval orifice at each side, and 
when old turning quite white. The plant is larger than A. geniculatus , 
and the spike more compound. Prof. Hooker, and some foreign Botanists, 
still consider it only a var. of the preceding species. 
Orange-spiked Fox-tail Grass. A. geniculatusj var. 4. With. Ed. 4. 
Floats in water. Swainsthorpe, near Norwich. Mr. Stone. E.) In a 
marshy place by the stews in Edgbaston Park. (Bridge near Audrey 
Causeway, Cambridgeshire. Rev. R. Relhan. E.) 
P. August—September. 
(KNAP'PIA + Cal. two-valved: Bloss. two unequal, very 
hairy, awnless valves. 
K. AGROSTIDE f A. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 61 —E. Bot. 1127—H. Ox. viii. 2. row 3. 10— C. B. Th. 
26—J. B. ii. 465. 4 —Scheuch. 1. 7. 1. 
Stems one to three inches high, erect, simple, slender, smooth, triangular, 
naked, except at the very bottom, where they are invested with the mem- 
* (Not eaten with relish by either cows, horses, or sheep. Its nutritive power not 
considerable. Sinclair. Salisbury thinks it might prove valuable in water meadows; 
but Curtis assures us that it cannot be recommended as a profitable grass, even in such 
situations. E ) 
t (Thus called after the celebrated author and delineator in this department of 
Botany, John Leonard Rnapp, E.L.S. E.) 
