PHLEUM ARENARIUM. SEASIDE CAT’S-TAIL
GRASS.
PHLEUM arenarium; panicula spicata, oblongo-ovata, basi attenuata; glumis calycinis lanceolatis,
acutis, margine carinaque ciliatis; culmis erectis, basi ramosis.
PHLEUM arenarium. Linn. Sp. P i. p. 88. Schrad. FI. Germ. ml. 1 . p. 189. Fl: Dan. t. 9 15 ,
Roth Germ. ml. l.p . 29. vol. 2 .p . 77. Sturm Deutsch. Fl. Hort. Cliff'.p. 23. It.
Scand. 190. Roy. Lugdb. p. 54. Fl. Suec. ml. 2 . n. 58.
PHALARIS arenaria, panicula mutica cylindrica spiciformi, glumis calycinis carinatis integerrimis ciliatis,
culmo ramoso. Willdenow Sp. PI. ml. 1 . 0. 328. Alton Hort. Keto. cd. 2 . ml. 1
p . 138.
PHALARIS arenaria, spica ovato-lanceblata obtusa, glumis exacte lanceolatis ciliatis, culmo basi ramoso.
Smith Fl. Brit. ml. 1 . p. 62.
PHALARIS arenaria. Huds. Angl.p. 23. With. Bot. ed. 4. ml. 2 . p. 114. ed. 5. ml. 2 . p. 154.
Hull. Br. Fl. p. 19. Koel. Gram. p. 42. Engl. Bot. t. 2 22. Hoffm. Germ. ml. 1 !
p. 29- D e Cand. Fl. Fr. ed. 2 . ml. 3. p. 8. Fl. Gall. p. 121. Persoon Syn. PI.
ml. 1 . p . 79. Deslong. Fl. Gall. p. 37. Knapp Gram. Brit. t. 4.
ß PHALARIS phleoides. Alton Hort. Kero. ed. h ml. l.p . 86.
CRYPSIS arenaria. Desfont. Fl. Atl. ml. l.p . 63.
CHILOCHLOA arenaria. P . de Beam. Agrostogr. p. 37.
GRAMEN spicatum maritimum minimum, spica cylindracea. Tourn. Inst. 520. Scheuchz. Gram. 68.
GRAMEN typhinum maritimum minus. Rail Hist. 1269. Pluk. Alm.p. 177. t. 33. ƒ 8.
GRAMEN phalaroides maritimum minimum. Monti Prodr. p. 48. t. 47.
D u t Zandig doddegras. Fr. Fléole des sables. Germ. Sand-Lieschgras. Kleines Raupengras.
Kleines Sandliesch. Sandfennich. Sandkölbehen. Welsh. Pefrwellt ytywod.
Class an d Ord e r . TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA.
[Natural Ord e r . GRAMINEA5, Juss. Br. D e Cand.]
GeR. Ciia r . Cal. bivalvis, uniflorus, valvulis subaequalibus, mucronato-subaristatis. Corolla bivalvis mutica,
calyce inclusa. Semen liberum. Corolla tectum. Schrad.
Radix annua, fibrosa, subtomentosa.
Culmi quatuor- ad sex-unciales, numerosi, simplices
vel prope basin solummodo divisi, adscendentes,
geniculis srepe infracti, teretes, striati, glaberrimi,
usque ad apicem foliosi.
Folia vix unciam longa, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, margine
solummodo scabra; vaginis longis, inflatis,
striads, glaibris.
Stipula membranacea, exserta, lineari-lanceolata, ob-
tusiuscula.
Root annual, fibrous, and somewhat tomentose.
Culms from four to six inches long, numerous, simple
or only divided at the base, ascendent, often
bent a t the joints, round, striate, very smooth,
and leafy even‘to the summit.
Leaves scarcely an inch long, linear-lanceolate, acute,
the margin only rough, having the sheaths long,
inflated, striated, and quite smooth.
St ipu l e membranaceous, exserted, linear-lanceolate,
somewhat obtuse.
Panigula spicata, compacta, oblongo-ovata, basi attenuata.
P an icl e spicate,
the base.
ipact, oblongo-ovate, attenuate at
Rachis angulata, pufiescens.
Rami breves, divisi, parum pubescentes.
Glumaj calyciiife corolla duplo majores, tequales, lanceolate,
apice subito acuminate, virides,. trinerves,
carinate, scabre, margine membranaceo
albo, marginibus carinaque superne ciliatis.
Glumie corolline membranacee,- albe, hie illic pilose,
apice crenatie; exterior late ovata, truncata; interior
ovata, obtusa.
Germen obovatum; Stigmata plumosa.
r 8 | I Calycine Glumes. Fig. 2. Glumes of the C
Germen: all magnified.
Raciiis angular, pubescent.
Branches short, divided, a little pubescent.
Calycine Glumes twice as long as the Corolla, lanceolate,
equal, at the apex suddenly acuminate,
green, three-nerved, carinate, rough, with the
margin membranaceous and white, and the keel
as well as the margins ciliated upward.
G lumes of the Corolla membranaceous, white, here
and there pilose, and crenate at the extremity;
tiie exterior one is widely ovate, truncate; the
interior one ovate and obtuse.
Germen obovate; Stigmas plumose.
orolla. Fig. 4. Stamens. Fig. 5. Stigmas. Fi«-. 6.
I f lH E Is T'T" “V-T1? P'.“f es' bul particularly on the sea-shores. It is abundant at Yarmouth,
seen it m f l o w m early'os“ t o of Apri|e‘S' “ ****** ,0 be found in the m°"th of June. We have even
temored to IflfSsii rest01m8 *l'«;phint to its old place among the Phlea, notwithstanding that it has been
Oesfontaines M H ’y 1 '""."..v B S K Botanists, nor of adopting the character above given by Dr. Schrader,
las take^ t nto bk n . JU leA 7 H B a M >■ nor are we disposed to follow Palisot de Beauvois, who it into his new genus Uulochloa; since it does not accord with the characters he.has laid down.
more cvfindrirni^ neai^ a**‘ec* rare Michelii, from which it differs in its much smaller size, in the
ikhtnlri of S ch iSw Gl!ihp/,PT 1C-C’ ,a/ld-f,Spef r - y 10 tl\6. l0"§er antl less obtuse vaIves of the corolla. Phleum
panicle i l i S l i phleoides of Linnaeus) is distinguished by its much longer andquite cylindrical
no y ciliate, calycine glumes, and entire corolla: besides which, the latter is a perennial grass.
J B i H M M M M i « * » ® not more than half thatof our figure, joined to its very short du-
■ought for bv smal l W S H B l ?,“rp0SeS- , Its seods (which , y small birds, n e have tound the pupa of a species of Musncma i‘n“ tShPe &parn sicol es.m all a plant) are e“aog erl1y