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* ALOPECURUS bulbosus.
Bulbous Fox-tail-grass.
TRIANDRIA Digynia.
G en. C har. Cal. of 2 valves, containing a single
floret. Cor. of 1 valve.
Spec. Char. Stem erect. Spike simple, tapering.
Glumes o f the calyx distinct, downy. Root bulbous.
Syn . Alopecurus bulbosus. Linn. Sp. PI. 1665. Sm.
FI. Brit. 73. With. 120. Hull. 16.
A . geniculatus /a. Huds. 27.
Gramen myosuroides nodosum. Dill, in Raii Syn. 397.
t. 20. f . 2.
T h IS grass is found in salt marshes only, nor does it appear
to be correctly understood by botanists in general. Hudson
asserts that in watery places it becomes the geniculatus; but
this is so far from being correct that it always grows in watery
places. W e have preserved it unchanged for several years in
a garden by means of shade and moisture. The present specimen
was gathered by Mr. Lambert near Weymouth. It is
a perennial grass, and produces its flowers in July.
Root an oval solid fleshy bulb, or sometimes two bulbs one
over the other. Stem solitary, simple, erect, rarely bent at one
joint, leafy, slender, smooth. Leavesverynarrow, smooth,
with long slender sheaths, and shortish stipulse. Spike quite
simple, tapering, nearly erect, green or purplish. Calyx-
glumes nearly equal, pointed but not awned, distinct at their
base, furnished with soft hairs upon their keel and ribs. Corolla
of one obtuse notched glume, with a bent awn from its
back twice as long as the calyx.