fum afperiufculi & fiibtriquetri. Rachis uno latere compreffo plana albida,
altero rotundata obtufa. Spiculs longius pedicellats, lanceolats, a cu ts,
diftichs, glaberrims, pallide virides, femiunciam longs , ultra lineas duas
latae, a quinque ad feptemflors. Calycis glums insquales, angufto-lan-
ceolats , acuminats, d r ift s , glumis folliculorum breviores, altera minore.
Folliculi alterni, feffiles: gluma exterior oblonga, convoluta, ariftata ,
marginibus & apice albida & ad lentem denticulis minutiffimis obfeffa, duas
ad tres lineas, absque arilla longa. Arifta fesquilines aut duarum longi-
tudine, albida aut virefcens, ex ipfo gluma; apice prodit, ' itidem afpera ,
denticulis in gluma; doriiim usque decurrentibus. Interior plana lanceola-
ta , albida, fcariofa. Anthers flavent: filamenta uti in congeneribus ca-
pillaria, & ftigmata plumofa.
XLII.
FESTUCA V AR IA .
Feftuca panicula fubsquali, flriata, pauciflora: fpiculis teretibus, quadri-
floris , glabris , fubariftatis : foliis fetaceis.
Feftuca panicula ftrifta, locuftis teretibus, quadrifloris. Hall hiß, tom, II.
fag. 214. numl 1439.
Habitat in plerisque alpium granitofarum fuperciliis, immania inter
faxa a lupremis earum culminibus decidua,' cum Poa difticha, Valeriana
Celtica & Saxifragarum ampla gente: ut fupra Judenburg & Secau S ty r is :
in monte Schoekl prope Grscium & in plerisque Tyrolenfibus Leontinis.
Fibrs radicis copiofs, teretes, ferpentins, duriufculs, plus minus crafts
&
& e fufco-nigricantes. Culmorum ima bafts a vaginarum congerie'turnet,
digitum minimum & ultra craffa , latis denfisque inde enatis celpitibus. Vagins
denfe imbricats, lacers, arids, ftriats, cinerafcentes & arfte inter-
nexs. Culmi ex quovis cefpite plures, ereAti, duri, ftrifti, teretes, le-
mipedales autaltiores, geniculo unico duorum aut trium a radice pollicum
intervallo , atropurpurafcente, glabro manifefte infrafti. Folia plurima in
radicalibus fafciculis, culmo paulo breviora, erefta aut apice recurva, fe-
tacea, angufta, acuminata, dura, pallide aut ex flavo viridia, glaberrima,
fuperne fulco tenui exarata, dorfo rotundata, baft in vaginas illas.latas, &
complanatas decurrentia, utrinque ad vagins exortum fubtus genicello glabro
& flavefcente inftrufta. Folium, in culmo fupra geniculum, unicum,
ftriftum, radicalibus anguftius , ad duas uncias longura. Vagina cylindri-
c a , fuperne arfta , bafilaxior, ftriata atque glabra. Ligula nulla. Panicula
nuda, fubsqualis, ftrifta, ab una ad fesquiunciam longa, glabra, pauciflora,
florum a decern ad quindecim. Rami erefti, alterni, utplurimum
folitarii, rarius tarnen & bini ex eodem culmi loco egredientes, duas, ad
fummumtres, in fummitate fpiculas florum gerentes, brevibus pedicellis
nixas: fspe tarnen panicula adeo depauperata, ut racemum magis, quam
paniculam dixeris. Spiculs ex maximis congenerum, primo perfefte teretes
& ventricofs, tandem diftichs & expanls, glaberrims, acuts, qua-
dri-quinqueflors, lineas quatuor aut quinque longs. Calyx bivalvis: val-
vuls insquales, erects, ovato-lanceolats, acuts, mucronats, glumis folliculorum
breviores, iisque concolores, glabrs: exteriore paullo majore.
Folliculi alterni, feffiles: gluma exterior ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, fub-
ariftata, glabra, dorfo atque baft ex flavo virens, state aurea, apice pro-
fundius purpuraicens, marginibus pellucentibus, icariofis, albis, ultra duas
lineas