PHALARIS PHLEOIDES.{%^-
Cat’s-tail Canary.
Sp e c . C hak. Panicle compressed into a slender and cylindrical spike.
BE.TA.K was enabled to add this species to her Flora ftom Ore researches of those accurate and
faithful investigator, of the vegetable tribes, Messrs. Woodward and Crowe; and it was these gentlemen
who pointed out to us the exact situation o f this rare Pha,aris phleoides.*.— Those w o have
only seen this plant as the nursling of the garden would scarcely know it in an indigenous state,
wifi smile perhaps at our diminutive representation: amidst an huhdred plants we did not “ “
that attained the height of fo u r th inches, nor was the panicle in any instance die length of two
inches, and die whole plant slender and attenuated. The panicle appears to the eye as a sp ike,.4e
short branches which compose it being upright, and closely compressed.— Leaves short and shea -
iug with very fine serrabires at die edges; straw smooth.— In the culdvated plant will be found
(as mentioned by Dr. Withering), at die base of the inner va!ve of die corolla, a very minute brisde,
but in the indigenous one, if that brisde exists, it was too small to be observed by ns.
A, a Branch; a series of which form the spiked panicle.
B, the Calyx.
C, the Corolla.
i t the edges ot the small hills behind Hildersham, Cambridgeshire.