TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Agrostis. 
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MILIUM,* Cal. two-valved, one-flowered; valves tumid: 
Blossom very short: ( Summits pencilled with soft hairs : 
Seed covered by the indurated corolla. E.) 
M. lendFgerum. Panicle spike-like; flowers with awns. 
Schreb. 23. 3— (F. Bot. 1107. E.)— Pluk. 33. 6 — Goaan. Hart. 1. 2— 
Branch of a panicle, Scheuch. 3.11. C. 
(Stem branched from the bottom., smooth. Leaves roughish at the edges. 
E.) Panicle strap-spear-shaped, glossy, one inch and a half to three 
inches long, three-eighths to half an inch broad. Calyx ventricose, po¬ 
lished, and colourless at the base, finely serrulated at the edges, and the 
longer valve awn-pointed. Blossom , larger valve terminating in four 
little teeth, the smaller valve in two ; much smaller than the calyx. 
( Awn jointed ; fixed above the middle of the larger blossom valve; as 
- long as the larger calyx valve; deciduous. Seed coated with the 
hardened corolla, and enveloped in the shining calyx. E.) 
Panick Millet Grass. Alopecurus ventricosus. Huds. Meadows and 
pastures. Isle of Sheppey. Near Weymouth. Lightfoot. Amongst 
wheat, Gillingham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. (A. Aug. E.) 
M. EFFifsuM. Flowers in panicles; loose and spreading; without 
awns. 
Curt. 248— (FI. Dan. 1143— E. Bot. 1106. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 5. 10— Ger. 
6. 1— C. B. Th. Ill— Park. 1153. 1— Portion of the panicle, Leers 8. 7— 
Scheuch. 3. 6 — Floret, Mont. 61. 
Three or four feet high. Leaves half an inch or more in breadth ; (bright 
green, with a single rib, and rough edges; their sheaths strongly ribbed. 
E.) Panicle tall (often a foot long. E.) and wide-spreading, very much 
scattered from the various lengths of the secondary fruit-stalks, which 
grow in whirls, and give the plant an airy, light, and elegant appearance. 
(Flowers solitary, slightly drooping. Cal. permanently green. Valves 
of the Bloss. forming a shining hard coat to the seed. Sm. E.) 
Soft Millet. Spreading Millet Grass. (Welsh: Miled-wellt. E.) 
Wet woods, common. Frequent in Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Plentiful 
in woods about Wick Cliffs, Somerset. Mr. Swayne. (Speake, seven 
miles south of Liverpool. Dr.Bostock. Walks at Corby, and at Naworth 
Castle, Cumberland. Hutchinson. In woods around London. Graves. 
Old Park, near Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. Roslin woods. Grev. Edin. E.) 
A. May—June. P. FI. Brit.f 
AGROSTIS.t Cal. two-valved; valves acute, compressed, 
awnless : Bloss. membranous, shorter than the calyx, 
hairy at the base : Seed disengaged. E.) 
(The species and varieties of British Agrostides, which run almost imper¬ 
ceptibly into each other, have hitherto been involved in much confusion. 
* (From a supposed resemblance to the plant which bore that name with the 
Romans. E.) 
j* (Birds are remarkably fond of the seeds ; so much so, that by sowing this grass 
in game covers, it would save the corn. Hort. Gram. It is said to exhale a fragrance 
similar to Sweet-scented Vernal Grass. E.) 
X (From txypog , a field, as common therein ; and certain species being worthy of cul¬ 
tivation. E.) 
