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Dicks. II. S. — (E. Bot. 1316. E.)— Kniph. 8 -—II. Ox. viii. 6. 47 —Barr. 
1 6—Park. 1165. 5. 
{Straw erect, cylindrical, a span high, very smooth, leafy, often branched at 
the base. Leaves sheathing the stem, upright, spear-shaped, acute, flat, 
pale green, scored, rough at the edge. Sheath-scale spear-shaped, very 
long, embracing the stem. FI. Brit. E.) 
Small Quaking Grass. In pastures, (very rare ; only found in the south 
of England. E.) (Near Bath. Mr. Alchorne. Huds. At Boconnoc, 
Cornwall. Mr. E. Forster, jun. in Bot. Guide. St. Vincent’s Rocks. Mr. 
Dyer, ditto. E.) Plentifully near Penzance. A. June—July. 
B. me'dia. Spikets egg-shaped: calyx shorter than the florets. 
Gram. Pasc. — Dicks. H. S.—{Hort. Gram. E.)— FI. Dan. 258— (E. Bot. 
340. E.)— II. Ox. viii. 6. 45— Trag. 670— Barr. 15. 2— Ger. Em. 86. 2 
—c. B. 22 1— Park. 1165. 2. G -J. B. ii. 469. 2. 6 —Leers 7. 2—Scheuch. 
4. 8— Mont. 39 —Dwarf specimens. C. B. Th. 25. 1— II. Ox. viii. 6. 46— 
J. B. ii. 469. 2— Scheuch. 4. 9. 
(Straw a foot high or more, upright, cylindrical, leafy, very smooth. 
Leaves sheathing the stem, nearly upright, spear-shaped, acute, flat 
scored, somewhat rough. Florets about seven, in two ranks. FI. Brit. 
An extremely elegant plant. Panicle slender and tremulous, tinged with 
purplish brown. E.) 
Should any difficulty remain in determining these two species from the 
Linnsean character, it may be observed, that in B. media the inner valve 
of the blossom is finely fringed at the edges, but entire at the end, whilst 
in B. minor it is not fringed at the edges, but cloven at the end. 
Cow-quakes. Ladies’-hair. Common Quaking Grass. (Welsh: 
Eigryn ; Gwenith ysgyfarnog. “ Gramen tremulum ,” of the ancients, 
from its tremulous panicle. Amourette of the French. E.) Fields and 
pastures. P. July.* 
DAC'TYLIS.f ( Bloss. awn-pointed, spear-shaped, keeled, com¬ 
pressed ; inner-valve folded, two-ribbed. Seed detached, 
oblong. Cal. compressed, taper pointed, unequal. E.) 
D. glomera'ta. Panicle crowded (in dense tufts. E.), pointing one 
way. 
Gram. Pasc. — Schreh. 8. 2—( Fort. Gram. — E.Bot. 335. E.) — El. Dan. 743 
— H. Ox. viii. 6. 38— Bauh. Pr. 9. 1 , and Th. 45. 1— Mus. Rust. v. 1 . 5— 
Park. 1182. 5— J. B. ii. 467. I—Barr. 26. 1. 2 —Leers 3. 3— Scheuch . 
6. 15. 
Florets in rainy seasons sometimes viviparous. Wood. (Leaves strap¬ 
shaped, acute, expanding, long, of a dull green colour, scored, rough, 
chiefly at the edge. Florets three or four, seldom only one, larger than 
the calyx, five-ribbed, sharp-pointed, with the keel fringed. FI. Brit. E.) 
* Cows, sheep, and goats eat it. If a seed be carefully dissected in a microscope 
with a fine lancet, the young plant will be found with its roots and leaves perfectly 
formed. A grass of no value as a pasture grass, but only as it gro\Vs on such wet parts 
as better grasses would not grow on, such places should be drained and manured, and 
then the herbage would soon be changed. Rev. G. Swayne. (It is bitter to the taste. 
Salisbury. Mr. Sinclair states it to be most suitable for poor soils, and that manure 
is even injurious to it. E.) 
t (From daxTvho?, a finger j the cluster of spikes somewhat resembling fingers. E.) 
