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A IR A FL EX U O SA .{ Spec. Plant.
Long-leaved Hair-grass.
Spec. Char. Panicle expanding,; branches in pairs; leaves long, hair-like, and smooth.
T his Aha is a lover of high and elevated situations, both in woods and open places, where it is
easily distinguished by possessing characters so very different from its congeners. Leaves very fine,
and at times above half the length o f the straw, arising from scaly pencil-like tufts at the root:
straw coloured, changing in age to a deep unpleasant red, smooth, but rough on the panicle:
branches generally in pairs, and alternate.------The situations in which this Aha delights are seldom
productive o f much herbage, and hence the cattle which frequent those places in search o f food
crop every green thing that is , applicable to that end, and thus the long and slender foliage o f this
plant is eaten by them, .but by no means appears to be selected; its fine leaves can supply but a
pitiful food, and its diy unsucculent nature renders it an unwelcome one.______ This Aira is occasionally
found with three florets in the calyx, particularly in the upper part o f the panH»
A, the Calyx and its Florets.
B, the Valves of the Calyx.
C, the Corolla of the upper Floret with its hairy peduncle.