ALOPECURUS AGRESTIS. {spec. pimt.
Slender Field Fox-tail.
Spec. Char. Calyx cleft half ways blossom a little fringed with hair.
Our first species of Fox-tail grass always delights in damp situations, but the agrestis is found in
several, but all o f them tending to dryness j R commonly abounds in the spring months (to the
detestation o f the former) in wheat fields' and among clover} from these habits the leaves have a
tendency to curl up, and the straw, calyx, and foliage, are tinted with red, a colour which plants
growing in dry and arid places are observed to acquire.--------- Stipulse large} leaves roughish on theinside,
and set with minute prickles on the edge} arista almost half as long again as the floret valve..
------ It flowers something earlier than the Alop. prat.----------The appellation of our great naturalist,.
Mr. Ray (of whom every lover of science speaks with enthusiastic veneration), to this Alopecurus
is very apposite} IMyosuroides ’ (Mouse-tail), as it seems to bespeak the character o f the plant} and
that of Agrestis is equally fitting, indicating its habits, in contradistinction to Pratensis, which is only
a casual visitor, not an inhabitant o f our corn fields} nor is Agrestis ever an intruder in the purlieus o f
the meadow.
A, the Calyx.
B, the Floret Valve.
C, the Pointals.