PHLEUM PANICULATUM. { Hudson's Flora Ang.
Branched Cat’s-tail.
Spec. C h a r . Panicle spike-like, composed o f branches lying close to each other;
straw leafy.
To find Phleum paniculatum, in its native situation, was long the object o f our endeavours, but our
researches were not attended with success; and a plant so rare, with only an uncertain and extended
habitat, cannot be obtained but by accident only. The plants from whence the representation was
taken were sent us by the late Mr. Sole o f Bath, but from whence he obtained them is not certain:
we have likewise had specimens from the ballast hills, Sunderland.------Straw furnished with many
leaves; sheathing roughish: panicle branches perfectly upright, and, being compressed closely, form a
spike, but the branches expand by the hand being stroaked down the spike, similar to Phalaris
phleoides.------ Although Phleum paniculatum, in the rich soil of a garden, acquires a certain degree
o f luxuriance which would be apparently of utility to the grazier, yet it is probable that' in cultivation
it would attain to no eminence; few soils into which it would be admitted being rich enough to
favour sufficiently the increase of its foliage, and in dry and hungry land Us stature is small, and its
product insignificant.
A , a Branch, of several o f which the head consists.
B, the Calyx.
C, the Corolla.