A natural history of British grasses . i;i. hin AIRA CAIJESCENS. A . P R ^E C O X. XX] II 75 AIKA CANESCENS. LlNN.^TJS. IIOOKEE AND ArNOTT. J. E. SmITH. PaENELL. ScHEADEB. Knapp. Willdenow. Dickson. Witheeing. Ehehaet. Oedee. PLATE XXIII, A. Corynejpliorus canescens, Beavois. Babington. Eeichenbach. Koch. Kunth. Gramen junceum, Dalechamps. The Grey Hair-Grass. Aira—To destroy. Canescens—To become grey. One of the rarest of the British Grasses, and consequentlya useless agricultural species. Found on the sandy coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset, andJersey. Native of the Islands of the Mediterra
A natural history of British grasses . i;i. hin AIRA CAIJESCENS. A . P R ^E C O X. XX] II 75 AIKA CANESCENS. LlNN.^TJS. IIOOKEE AND ArNOTT. J. E. SmITH. PaENELL. ScHEADEB. Knapp. Willdenow. Dickson. Witheeing. Ehehaet. Oedee. PLATE XXIII, A. Corynejpliorus canescens, Beavois. Babington. Eeichenbach. Koch. Kunth. Gramen junceum, Dalechamps. The Grey Hair-Grass. Aira—To destroy. Canescens—To become grey. One of the rarest of the British Grasses, and consequentlya useless agricultural species. Found on the sandy coasts of Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset, andJersey. Native of the Islands of the Mediterranean, Greece, Turkey,Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Belgium,France, England, Norway, and Sweden. Easily distinguished from all other British species, in havingclub-shaped awns, which are fringed in the centre. Stem upright, circular, and smooth, bearing four or fivecetaceous, very short, rough, and glaucous leaves, with roughstriated sheaths, the uppermost leaf shorter than its of upper leaf acute
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