AGROSTIS stolonifera.
Creeping Bent-grass.
T R IA N D R IA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. of 2 acute valves, single-flowered.
Cor. of 2 unequal membranous valves. Stigmas
feathery.
Spec. Char. Panicle close. Stem branched, creeping.
Flowers crowded. Calyx-valves lanceolate, rough.
Syn. Agrostis stolonifera. Linn. Sp. PI. 93. Sm. FI.
Brit. 80. With. 131. Hull. 19. Relh. 27,
Sibth. 36. Hbbot. 14. Mart. Rust. t. 120.
A . polymorpha || Huds. 31.
Gramen montanum miliaceum minus, radice repente,
Raii Syn. 402 ?
G. caninum supinum. Ger. em. 26.
G a t h e r e d near Liverpool by Mr. John Shepherd, in wet
situations on a clay soil near the shore of the Mersey. W e have
chiefly .seen it in maritime situations. It flowers in July.
The roots are perennial, with downy fibres, and throw out
long, procumbent, round, hard and smooth stems, which
take root at all their joints, and bear numerous, broadish,
pointed, ribbed leaves rough on both sides. Stipula oblong,
often torn. Panicle erect, the branches crowded, short dense
ones being clustered about the bases of the longer ones.
Flowers linear-lanceolate. Calyx of 2 bluntish, purplish,
nearly equal, valves, the outer always rough on the keel, and
sometimes both of them are rough all over. Petals blunt,
shorter than the calyx, unequal, generally without awns.
A small variety occurs in dry places, to which perhaps
Ray’s synonym may belong.