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(2) Panicle slender, compact. 
P. crista'ta. Panicle spike-like; calyx husks rather hairy, two or 
three (rarely four) flowered, longer than the fruit-stalk; petals 
awned, awn-pointed. 
(P. Bot. 648. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 4. 7—Pluk. 33. 7 —Leers 5. 6. 
Boot rather bulbous. Straw about a foot high, curved at the base, above 
quite straight, upright, smooth, (scarcely smooth upwards. Mr. O. Ro¬ 
berts. Leaves short, slender, roughish at the margin and ciliated, glau¬ 
cous, single-ribbed. E.) Sheaths rather smooth. Panicle two to four or 
five inches long, less than half an inch broad, silvery and purplish. Calyx 
two or three-flowered, larger valve awn-pointed. Blossom , larger valve 
tapering into a long slender point, but not properly awned. 
Crested Meadow Grass. (P. cristata. Lightf. With. Willd. Relh. Hull. 
Sibth. Abbot. Leers. Host. Ehr. Aira cristata. Linn. Sm. Hook. Grev. 
Nearly allied to Aira by its two-flowered calyx, and acuminate glumes : 
and in its general characters not much less so to Festuca. E.) High bar¬ 
ren pastures. On the edge of a marl rock, Clarkton Leap, near Worcester. 
Stokes. On Wick Cliffs, Somerset. Mr. Swayne. Baydales, near Darling¬ 
ton. Mr. Robson. Henllan Village, near Denbigh. Mr. Griffith. (Broome 
Heath, near Bungay, Suffolk; and Denes, Yarmouth, Norfolk. Mr. 
Woodward. On the top of Hod and Hambledon Hills, near Blandford. 
Pulteney. Painswick Hill, or Spoonbed Hill near Painswick. Mr. O. 
Roberts. Llangoed above the sea, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Broadway 
Hills, Gloucestershire. Rufford, in Purton. In Castle Eden Dean; in 
limestone pastures near Sunderland; on the Links at Dunstanburgh, 
Bamburgh, and Holy Island. Mr. Winch. Calton Hill. Grev. Edin. E.) 
P. July—Aug.* * 
P. nemora'lis. Panicle slender, open when in flower; spikets mostly 
two-flowered, pointed; straw feeble : stipulse very short, notched. 
E -> 
Scheuch. Pr. 2. 2 —(P. Bot. 1265 — Hort. Gram. E.)— FI. Dan. 749— 
Scheuch. It. ii. 18. 3 —Leers 5. 3 — Mont. 12. 
Nearly two feet high. Straw smooth. Leaves very slender, just sensibly 
rough. Panicle from two to six inches high, greatly varying also in 
breadth, and in the number of branches. Calyx generally two, rarely 
three-flowered, the keel serrulated towards the end. Blosssom scarcely 
woolly at the base, but with some very fine, soft, and short wool-like 
hairs along the keel. Its habit as to strength or feebleness varies very 
much. 
Wood Meadow Grass. (Welsh : Gweun-wellt y goedwig. E.) Woods 
and shady places. Plentiful in the north. Mr. Woodward. Wick 
Cliffs. Mr. Swayne. (Charlton Wood also, in the south. E. Bot. Not 
uncommon in the woods of Dorset. Pulteney. Norberry Park, Surry. 
Mr. Winch. On a bushy bank between Alcester and Arrow. Purton. E.) 
P. E. Bot. A. June—Aug.t 
situation and rich soil of the valley, and that vegetation in general there assumes a 
gigantic form. Mr. Maton asserts, that the space of only two acres and a half has 
yielded as much as ten tons of hay in one year, but that the crops are not now equal to 
what they were formerly. Vid. Agrostis stolonifera. E.) 
* (In hs general qualities approaches Festuca ovina ; but cattle dislike its soft hairy 
foliage.. Hort. Gram. E.) 
t (This grass springs early, producing a line, succulent, but not abundant, herbage. 
