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A. epige'jos. Calyx single-flowered, longer than the corolla, taper- 
pointed ; panicle erect, close; flowers crowded, leaning one 
way, with a dorsal awn nearly as long as the down and calyx. 
E. Bot. 403. 
Stem nearly as tall but rather more slender than A. phragmites, much 
stouter than A. calamagrostis , often branched at the bottom, leafy, smooth. 
Leaves strap-spear-shaped, pointed, chiefly glaucous at the back, rough- 
ish, twice or thrice as broad as in A. calamagrostis. Sheaths close, 
striated, smooth, except the uppermost, which is roughish. Stipula lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, torn. Panicle erect, much branched, slightly spreading 
every way when in bloom. Calyx valves purplish, nearly equal, spear- 
shaped, narrow, long-pointed, rough. Petals half as long as the calyx, 
white, unequal, cloven at the top, the larger having three rough ribs, 
and bearing from about the middle a rough awn , whose extremity reaches 
nearly to the points of the calyx. Down almost as long as the calyx. A 
flower of this species is more particularly represented in E. Bot. t. 2160. 
f. 3. 
In restoring this and the other species of Arundo to their proper situation, 
we have adopted the very full descriptions given in the English Botany, 
in order to elucidate the characters and synonyms which have hitherto 
remained in much confusion. 
Wood Reed. (Welsh: Corsen y sychdir. E.) A. epigejos. Linn. FI. Brit. 
A. calamagrostis. Huds. Lightf. Calamagrostis lunceolata. With. Ed. 4. 
E.) Moist woods and shady ditches. On the side of a ditch on the 
borders of Aqualate Meer, Shropshire. Dr. Stokes. Earsham Wood, 
Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Hardwick Wood ; Wood Ditton ; Park Wood. 
Mr. Relhan. Castle Eden Dean. Mr. Robson. Dunmallet, by the front 
avenue; rare in Cumberland. Hutchinson. Upper stew in Edgbaston 
Park. (About Weymouth, and in Purbeck ; also in the vale of Black- 
moor. Pulteney. In the wood, west of the cherry garden, Sandgate, 
Kent. Mr. Gerard. E. Smith. Above the beach between Friars and 
Lleiniog; Lligwy wood, &c. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. July. 
(A. calamagrostis. Calyx one-flowered, longer than the blossom; 
panicle erect, spreading; flowers scattered, upright; leaves 
strap-shaped. FI. Brit. 
E. Bot. 2159. E.)— FI. Dan. 280 —H. Ox. viii. 8. 2 —Scheucli. Pr. 5—Ger. 
Em. 9. I— Scheuch. 3. 3. C, D. 
(Two to three feet high; when in full blossom the long hairs give the pani¬ 
cle a silky appearance. Panicle stiff and straight, very large. Blos¬ 
soms small, hairy at the base. Leaves flat. E.) Four or five feet high, 
unbranched. leaves stiff, harsh. Calyx rough and strong. Blossom thin 
and membranous. Awn from the back of the blossom, very slender, with 
difficulty found on account of the long hairs from the base of the blossom 
besetting it. 
in rows, at a foot or eighteen inches apart. The young shoots, cut off from the root 
where not.exposed to the light, m ike an excellent pickle. The nest of the sedge-war¬ 
bler, (a bird frequenting osier and willow beds,) is generally found suspended between the 
stems of Reeds at a small height from the ground. As an emblem of a pliant disposition 
bending with the current, though tiie Reed be often quoted, (as in contrast with the 
knotted oak), surely the flexible Rush must be considered more appropriate. The 
Entomologist may sometimes find a considerable variety of insects on the heads of this 
plant, whither they resort for food or shelter. E.) 
