. Flowers of the field. Botany. SS8 GRAMINE^ or shortly awncd, enclosing the iruit. ResembHng the Foxtails, but distinguislied from them by the poss,ession of a [>ale. (Name from the Greek plilc/'s, some reed-like plant.) 1. P. alpliutin (.Mountain Cat's-tail).—^/c'u solitary, ascending, 6—iS in. high ; leaf-slieaihs inflated; //gi(/c short ; spike oblong, purplish, about an inch long ; glumes truncate, with bristly awns as long as the glumes.—Bv streams on lofty Scottish mountains ; rare.—Fl. July. I'erennial- 2. ')a/('/;iY (Timothy grass, Meadow Cat's-tail).—Slem tufted, ascending, smo
. Flowers of the field. Botany. SS8 GRAMINE^ or shortly awncd, enclosing the iruit. ResembHng the Foxtails, but distinguislied from them by the poss,ession of a [>ale. (Name from the Greek plilc/'s, some reed-like plant.) 1. P. alpliutin (.Mountain Cat's-tail).—^/c'u solitary, ascending, 6—iS in. high ; leaf-slieaihs inflated; //gi(/c short ; spike oblong, purplish, about an inch long ; glumes truncate, with bristly awns as long as the glumes.—Bv streams on lofty Scottish mountains ; rare.—Fl. July. I'erennial- 2. ')a/('/;iY (Timothy grass, Meadow Cat's-tail).—Slem tufted, ascending, smooth, i—3 feet high; leaj-s/ieaths not inflated; ligide long ; spike cylindrjc, obtuse, i—6 in. long, green ; glumes truncate, with bristly a\vns, not half as long as the gli^nies; anthers yellow or purple.— Meadows; copimon. (Named after Timothy Hanson who! cultivated it in North America.)—Fl. Jum—August. Perennial. 3. P. phh'iiides (Purple-Stalked Cat's-tail).— Erect, like the Timothy-grass, but usually smaller; outer glumes linear-lanceolate, tapering into a nu'nute, stiff point ; margins white ; (uillici shns^i- oblong.—Dry fields in the eastern counties; rari^—Fl. July. Perennial. 4. P. fl)-f»(;rn/;« (Sea Cat's-tail).—Erect, 2—12 in. high; leirees broad, with long ligules, the upper ones with inflated^ sheaths ; spike [I—r in. long, cylindiic, tapering at the base, glaucous; glumes lanceolate, tape'ring into a short point; anthers minute, yellow.—Sandy coasts ; frecjuent. —Fl. Afay—July. Annual. 12. JMiin'iKA, of which M. minima (Early Sand- grass) is the only species, is a little tufted plant, 2—4 in. high ; leaves short, bristly, rough, with sheaths; spikelets 5^^io, minute, sub-sessile, purplish, awnless, dorsally compressed, 'in a i-sided spike, h—i in. long ; flowering glume thin, very hairy, truncate, jagged at top,— Wet sandy shores of Anglesca and the Channel Islands ; rare.— Fl. March, April. .Annual. 13. 'iis (
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