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they form a spear-shaped bunch, whose breadth at the base is equal to 
about half its length. 
( Spike dense, distinguished by the elegantly pectinated neuter spikets at 
the back, and bristly with the long rough awns of the perfect ones in 
front. Sm. E.) 
Rough Dog’s-tail Grass. Sandy soil near the sea in the south of 
England. Near Sandwich. (Near Hastings, but very sparingly. Rev. 
Dr. Goodenough. FI. Brit. St. Anthony’s Ballast Hills, near Sunderland. 
Mr. Thornhill. Bot. Guide. A. June. E.)* 
FESTU'CA.* Cal. two-valved, very unequal: Spickets oblong, 
roundish: Husks tapering to a point, or terminating in 
an awn : ( Seed detached. E.) 
(1) Panicle pointing one way : awns longer than the blossom. 
F. bromoi'des. Spikets upright, smooth: calyx valves, one entire, 
the other tapering to an awn-like point: (leaves setaceous, 
shorter than their sheaths: upper half of the stem naked. E.) 
(E. Bot. 1411. E.)— Pluk. 33. 10— Scheuch. 6. 10 and 14. 
Panicle broader and shorter than in F. myurus ; the spikets also larger and 
broader. Straw with three or four joints. Ray. Few plants vary more 
in size than this: in very dry sand on the sea shore it is sometimes only 
two inches high, as represented in the fig. of Plukenet: in more fertile 
soil sixteen inches or more. Straw and leaves smooth. Panicle loose, 
about three inches long. Spikets from five to ten-flowered, but com¬ 
monly six. Calyx , smaller, valve hardly half the length of the other. 
Blossom, valves smooth. Awns twice the length of the blossom, or 
more. 
Barren Fescue Grass. (Welsh: Peisg-wellt anhiliawg. E.) On walls 
and dry sandy places* On the top of Brandon Hill, near Bristol. Mr. 
Swayne. Dry pastures near the Mass-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 
(Near Bedford. Rev. Mr. Hemsted. E. Bot. About Aberdeen and the 
banks of the Dee. Mr. Anderson. Frequent on walls about Edinburgh. 
Dr. Yule. Hook. Scot. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) A. May—June. 
F. myu'rus. Panicle spike-like, drooping: calyx, smaller valve very 
minute: florets rough, awns very long: (leaves awl-shaped: 
stem leafy to the top. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — (E. Bot. 1412. E.) —Leers 3. 5 — Barr. 99. 1— H. Ox. viii. 
7. 43— Scheuch. 6. 12— Ger. Em. 29. *2.— Park. 1162. 8. 
(Much resembling the last, but larger ; the panicle four times as long. Sm. 
E.) About sixteen inches high. Panicle five or six inches long, slightly 
curved. Spikes from four to eight or ten-flowered. Calyx very unequal. 
* (In corn-fields this grass attains to a considerable height, but it has been de¬ 
tected on rocks extremely diminutive. “ Though a grass like this,” observes Mr. 
Sinclair, “ may^ be of comparatively little or no value to the farmer, it is, surely, not 
unworthy of regard ; for, independently of the pleasure which a consideration of its 
peculiar structure, design, uses, and connexion with others of known value must 
excite, a knowledge of the plant will also direct whether to encourage or prevent its 
growth.” E.) 
* (Festuca, a Latin word expressive of the shoot of an herb or tree, adopted by 
Dilleni-us; but how particularly appropriate to this genus is not obvious. E.) 
