PHA LARIS arundinacea.
Reed Canary-grass.
T R IA N D R IA Digynia.
G en. C har. Cal. of 2 carinated equal valves, single-
flowered, longer than the corolla, which is
double, the inner one hardened investing the
seed.
Spec. C har. Panicle upright, with spreading branches,
Flowers crowded, leaning one way.
Syn. Phalaris arundinacea. Linn. Sp. PI. 80. Huds. 23.
Abbot. 13. FI. Dan. t. 259. Ehrh. Calam. 51.
Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 180. t. 6. f . 5 .
Arundo colorata. Soland. in A it. H. K ew .v . 1. 116.
Sm. FI. Brit. 147. Knapp, t. 98. Hull. v. 2. 35.
Relh. 44.
Calamagrostis variegata. With. 124.
C. colorata. Sibth. 37.
Gratnen arundinaceum acerosa gluma nostras. R a ii
Syn. 400. ____ __ _____
M i s l e d by great authority, I have in FI. Brit, referred
this grass to Ancndo, and Mr. Sowerby by mistake gave its
figure in t. 402 for A . epigejos, really represented in t. 403.
W e wish to correct both errors by this new page o f letterpress,
and another to replace p. 403.
The present plant is extremely common about pools, ditches
and rivers, flowering in July. A variegated kind is frequent
in gardens. The root is perennial, creeping, and tufted. Stems
from 2 to 5 feet high, ereet, strong, reedy, smooth and leafy,
with several joints. Leaves lanceolate, striated, pointed,
smooth, more or less glaucous, with long, ribbed, scarcely
swelling sheaths. Stipula short, bluntish. Panicle erect,
branched, lobed, its branches spreading, angular and rough.
Flowers crowded, leaning one way, often purplish. Calvx-
glumes equal, keeled, ribbed. _ Inner corolla shorter than the
calyx, downy; cartilaginous at length, and enfolding the
seed; outer of 2 very minute linear, gibbous, hard valves,
each bearing a tuft of hairs exceeding their own length.
Dr. Schrader rightly observes that the hardened permanent
corolla proves this a Phalaris, and that what have been taken for
mere tufts of hair, are really outer petals. These parts not being
all represented in t. 402, we have inserted them in t. 2160, at fg- 2 *