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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Ff.stuca. 
the smaller valve hardly one-sixth the size of the larger. Blossom valves 
rough. Awn full twice the length of the blossom. {Stamen only one. 
It varies occasionally with husks hairy. FI. Brit. E.) 
Wall Fescue Grass. Capon’s-tail Grass. (Welsh: Peisg-wellt y 
fagwyr. E.) Walls and dry barren places. A. May—June.* 
(F. uniglu'mis. Panicle pointing one way, upright, undivided: flo¬ 
rets awl-shaped, compressed, awned : one valve of the calyx very 
short. 
Dicks. H. S.—E. Bot. 1430. E .)—Ray 17. 2. 
From six to twelve inches high; slanting, cylindrical, smooth, a little 
branched. Leaves a little rolled inwards, sharp, naked, much shorter 
than the leaf-stalk. Sheath-scale membranous, rather blunt. Spikets on 
fruit-stalks, strap-shaped; florets from four to eight in each. Fruit- 
stalks short, thick, rough. Husk one valve, strap-shaped, concave, 
awned. Blossom two-valved, unequal. Outer valve larger, strap-shaped, 
keeled, awned, rough. Inner valve smaller, flat, strap-shaped, awnless. 
Awn twice the length of the floret. Huds. Upper florets barren ; inner 
husk of the calyx whitish, and so exceedingly minute as to be scarcely 
discernible by the naked eye. FI. Brit. E.) 
Wild Oat Grass, or Drank. Sea Darnel. Single-husked Fescue 
Grass. (Welsh: Peisg-wellt uncib. E.) Folium hromoides. With. Ed. 
4. Sea coasts, in loose sand. In Essex, Sussex, and other maritime 
counties. With Arundo arenaria on the south-west coast of Anglesey. 
Rev. H. Davies. A.—B. June. E.) 
F. gigante'a. Panicle drooping: spikets four-flowered, shorter than 
the awns : (stipula abrupt, auricled, clasping the stem. Sm. E.) 
Curt. 344— {E. Bot. 1820. E.)— Schreb. 11— Leers 10. 1— FI. Dan. 440— 
Vaill. 18. 3— Scheuch. 5. 17 and 19— Weig. 1. 5. 
Four or five feet high. Leaves half an inch broad. Sheath-scale purple; 
by which alone it may be distinguished. Panicle branches in pairs, sub¬ 
divided. Calyx-valves keeled, slender, tapering to a point, from three to 
six-floivered. Blossom not ribbed, nor hairy. Awns full twice the length 
of the blossom. 
(The inner valve of the blossom being merely finely downy, even under 
the microscope, decidedly not pectinated or coarsely ciliated, as in 
Bromusy has induced the removal of this plant from that genus to Fes- 
tuca } though its general habit partakes of the former. 
Var. 2. More delicate, paler, and narrower-leaved ; about two feet high, 
with the number of florets variable. 
E. Bot 1918— FI. Dan. 440. 
Admits of no permanent specific distinction. Bromus triflorus. Linn. 
Willd. Sm. Linn. Tr. F. triflora. Sm. E. Bot. With. Ed. 6. F.gi- 
gantea /3. Hook. Scot. Sm. Eng. FI. A dwarf variety, found in arid, 
barren ground, as Hinton Moor, Cambridgeshire. Rev. R. Relhan. On 
the banks of the Esk, near Forfar. Hooker. At Saham, Norfolk. Mr. 
Crowe. 
* (Birds appear to be very fond of the seeds. The plant is unprofitable to the agri¬ 
culturist. Hort. Gram. E.) 
