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FESTUCA pratenses panicula secunda obliqua, spiculis nauticis stablinearibus, soliis planis FEsTUCA Hlarior Lian. FZ Suec. n. 94. FESTUCA proiens, panicula erecta, spiculis linearibus muti eis, soliis planis. Hismon FZ Angi M. I. p. 37, GRAMEN paniculatum elatius, spicis longis, muti is, squamosis. Rati S n. p. 4ra. 16. Seleuci.
PH ENIX multiplici spicata pani eula. Branched Darnel-Grasse. I xl. TZ I. p. 1145. GRAMEN loliaceum panicula multipliei et si leata. mo n. Ins. p. 516. Sch M. Agros. p. 2CO. I. In the environs os London the Festiola pris pn j is a very common grassi, growing spontaneoiasty in siluations widely varie i : Me have observed it in the sand piis at Chariton, and the oster gro uniis Dear Battersea ; also in various pastu res and by the fides os pallis: hut it cibo an is most in sertile meado whieli are moderately motu in many paris os Battersea mea low it may be soland most plentis ut ly. It solue is abolit the middie os June: seed shom a erop os it so on ground whicli I occupy at Brompton, was ripe and cui hy the end os the fame monti . Frona long culti vation we have observed this gras eontinue persectly dis inst, and as we have soland it to be a very hardy perenniat, producing a great ero ' of delirable herbage, we have recommended it as one of thebest os otir Britim gras es. Excepi in sige, arising si om luxuriance os soli, it is not subject to much variation. severat authors have cons unded this species With the esurior, io whiel, it certainly bears great assinity: Mo 1 soru and RAY, two os our early writers haust ille credit os considering them as disines. R V, in his PL has happily displayed the character of the pristi, δε and Mostis os has weli deserit,ed and fgured ii steti or; it appeam olearly also froin the solio ving word , which we sud at the close of the lalter, description os the e Dor. that he regarded the praten is ag a distinct species, alterum in pratis dimidio minus ejusdem formae
frequens invenitur, et tanquam distin ae speciei habendum.' SCAEDO VER gives a minute description os thepris ensis, mal ing two varieties os it without any very apparent reason : it is remari able that L 1NN gus cloes notreser to this author ei ther sor his egurior or his vari ty os it. VA1LLANT, as is evident frona his reserendes toRAY's two plantis, considers the et fior and priste, D as the fame, though Liv Natus in his FZ Stipe. and Sppo P n . consolati s two planis in his references, and quotes indeed a sigure in B ARREL 1gst. whieli is Deither esito, nor pris hut the F sui a j nnso HudV. ed. p. 3 et we suspecti si Cm What he says of iis place of growth, &c. sor his specille deseription is a very inadequate one, that our l, ut sy is his pliarior; his Ciar. is of the e rior in the Sp. 1 f. ed. s. is clearii cur e nor, hut in the S s. Vegeras. ed. 14. his last Worh. the esurior si om aneis referen e to SCHED Ag n is evidently made our Hurior, and the variety is wholly lost fght os. Alr. latins oti in the si si edition os his FZ. A, I. gave to this grassi the nante os trieri δε vhi h, as the plant is clitesν solitigin m adows, as an extremely proper one, and as suci, wo mos rea lily adopt it: in the sd edition os ille sameviorii, by some unaccountaste mili ake, sor such it must bo, he has been induced contrary to the opinion os allnotamus to consider ii, together ivilli the A Deo as varieties os the Festi sui ans, assertinet that tho change tolt when cultivaled '. We must observe that this is not only contrary to our experien e in restarii to culturet,ut that me have frequently, and this senson particularly, observed the pratens s gro vinet in severat wet sinois in Baltersea mea dolus. close to the trans, and that both the grasses assumed their usual appe rance: not to mentionitie disserent habiis os these planis, the different sori os their spiculta, &c. thes stiirans has a nectaru differino widely srom that of the preste se , o Dor, or Ioha in and whach alone Would remove anν dou bis could sueti h reatly entertari ed on this subuect. I , UC The pris enses differs froni the ogatior in iis usual place of growth; we have indeed soland them growins close together: but bet vixi Battorsea and Vauxhail Where these planis gro v abundantly, the elatior usuallusim v separately srom the praue D; and have besore observea in the oster grounds, Where it has the a luantame os mois ture and fonte smade; the proten s gro more dispersed in the open meado , not formitast suci, lareetustu
, ole of the subsequent comparason, is usually, nearly tWice as high, and has soli age twice as broad as that ofilio pristenses; the panicie in the elatior is not only much longer, but contains a sar greater number of sowersm the propomon of to 128 taken frona medium specimens; the pani te in the strutensis is usuali votie'
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FESTUCA Ah o spleata, spiculis alternis sessilibus, compres4s muticis. H V. FI AMI ed. 1. p. 38. BOA loetis ia distieliis, spicatis, muticis. H. n. a 52. PH ENIX longius spicata. Pari. TI. i. p. 1146. Io ite his sttrivari ira appearances Milich this plant assumes, it may be styled the very Proteus os Grasses: in iis
moli uiuat forni it l, ars a resemblance to the LM tim pere Me, and hence it has been considered by sonae as a
inelies to a ioot in longili, benesing a litile towariis the top : the spicular are sessi nearly an incli lonet divero ing from and for the most pari placed obliquet' to the ra his, s metimos standing on soot paths of disserent tengilis, the lowermost ones abolat an in ii long Dearly round, sationed a litile on the fides. runni nil out to apoint: the Di permos ones s horter and s mewhat broader, containing srom ten to sis steti sowers ille eat uxuluntly conlisis of two valves unequat in spe. the in nermose frequently smali, laterat, and somelimes Wantinet: the other paris of the fruhtification are very similar to those of the pratensis and elatior. 'The sowers, as we hos ore observeti, usuallv grow in a simple si ille: this si the not unse quentlv occurshrancheli; th n iis appearaneo is greatly altered, and it approaches nearer to the sestu a pratensis: hut in that sese 1t is dis inguis hed froni it by the tengit, os iis spiked paniele: most commoraly the branehes strow froni thsthase of the spake, iometimes troto the middie: In Battersea meado , where this grassi is found abundani iv Iliave observed a varaety, an whicli the spicular Were si orter than usual, and two or three of the in or is to ethersioni the same potnt: hut the grand dissiculty Mhicli the student has to encounter in relation to this strassi is vineti ho meeis viii h that variery of ii, which having shorter and broader spiculae than usual, resembles Lotitimperenne so much, as to malle ham ready to ex laim, they are the fame in this dilemma there are three cha
raeiers, s me one os whicli I have never 3 et known to snil sirin, ille siluation os the spieulae utili respect io theraehis: ille eclge os these in the Lolium is always parallel with the rachis, which gives the spike a sat appear ance : in the loliac a they are placed more or less Obliquely seeon ly, in the Lolium perenne there is never morethan one valve to the Calyx, whach is a strong one, usualty two thiriis as long as the spieula: in ille Fest loli here is sor the most part two, though it osten happens that the inner one is very smali, impersese, and someti me; Manting altogether: but it happens very rarely incleed that the in ner valve is wanting in ali tho spiculae os a si thesrom ille fame root: siould this character sali, our dependance must be, thirdly, on the tengili os the outer valveos ille calyx, whicli rarely is more than one third as long as the spicula. haVe dwelt ilius minutely, tediousy we sear some may thinh. on these circumstances, froni a wim to removeolt doubis respecting this plant, and save suci, as may honour the Flora Lond. with their perusal, frona ex e lionei tig the dissiculties and perpleti ities in Whicli it has frequently involved us. The Festiea loliaeea comes into bloom abolit the fame time as the pratensis; it is theres ore not so earlv a s me other grasses : wes have soland it si ona many years culture a hardy perenniat os very qui k growth, pro uel nos larger bui somewhat similar crop to ray grassi, succeedi Og best in a moisi soli: it is howo ver rai her harm titillsalhy: iliose qualities exc pted it would appear to he equat in Dodnesis to sonte of the hest os oti e philti regisses, and as suci, me recommend it to the noti e os the Agriculturist there is one circumstance attentis this grass whiel, we must not omit to malle linown, as it highly concertis iis culture, and assor is a somowhat latiusti hi in hanee os vegetable reconomy the culti valed plant has produced me no persect se df, ei ther at Lam helli Marsh or Brompton: ille sanie nearly may be said of the elatior. While the pratensis has constantly produeed good seeds in abundance. I UIti isto first editiori os Mr. Hudsou's Fl. Angl we snd this Festuca under the nariae os loliaeea, a namehight y prope whether Ue consider ii as referring to the Lolium perenne, whicli it so much resemble, oi tollie assini ty it bears to the genus Lolium : sor it certainly is the connecting link of the Fesuea and Lolium . viciliaue to regret, however, that the ingenious author saould derogate si om the merit of mahing it a meri. . bVeonsidering it in ille second edition of the same work as a variety os ille Festuea fluitans. ' in Partes Fructificationis.
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LEONTO DON HIRTUM. DEFICIENT DAN DELION.
The whiae plant is muta sinalter the leaves spread more on the ground, and are of a dataer colour theso ver stallis are more numerous, letis iapright, not Only turning down or nodding at top, but frequentlv gulariu
Fl. 1. Corollula. 2. Series exterior semin. pappo dep. a. Semen hirius modi seorsim post 4. Semen ex interior pari. s. pappo instruct A single foret. The outer row os see s without any pappus. One os ille fame hin d plaeed singly. A seed srom the interior pari os the sower Rrnis, ed with pappus.