' l l A R U N D O epigejos.
Wood Reed.
TRIANDRIA Digynia.
G en. Char. Cal. o f 2 valves. Florets surrounded
with long down.
Spec. Char. Calyx single-flowered, longer than the
corolla, taper-pointed. Panicle erect, close. Flowers
crowded, leaning one way, with a dorsal awn nearly
as long as the down and calyx.
Syn. A rundo epigejos. Linn. Sp. PL 120. Sm. FL
Brit. 145. Hull. ed. 2 . 3.5. Re/h. 43. Knapp,
t. 97. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 2 1 1 . t. 4. f . 1. Ehrh.
Calam. 74.
A . Calamagrostis.' Huds. 54. Light/. 106.
Calamagrostis lanceolata. With. 122.
Gramen arundinaceum, paniculâ molli spadiceâ, ma-
jus. R a il Syn. 4 0 1 . Scheuchz. Prod. 2 1 . t. 5.
t. 21.59, a description of which was by mistake originally
T h i s grows in moist woods and about shady ditches, flowering
towards the end of July, three weeks later than A . Calamagrostis,
annexed to our t. 4 0 3 , and that page we wish to replace
by the present.
The root is creeping and perennial. Stem nearly as tall, but
rather more slender than A. Phragmites, t. 401, much stouter
2159than A . Calamagrostis, t. , often branched at the bottom,
leafy, smooth. Leaves linear-laaiceolate, pointed, chiefly glaucous
at the back, rougbish, twice or thrice as broad as in Calamagrostis.
Sheaths close, striated, smooth, except the uppermost
which is roughish. Stipula lanceolate, acute, torn.
Panicle erect, much branched, slightly spreading every way
when in bloom. Flowers crowded, leaning in clusters towards
one side, on rough rather rigid stalks. Calvx-valves purplish,
nearly equal, lanceolate,Petals half as long as the calyx,3 narrow, long-pointed, rough.
white,.unequal, cloven at
the top; the larger having rough ribs, arid bearing from
about the middle a rough awn, whose extremity reaches nearly
to the points of the calyx. The down is likewise almost as
long as the calyx. A flower o f this species will be found in
t. 2160. f . 3.
Linnaeus having misquoted Scheuchzer under this and the
Calamagrostis, caused them to be misunderstood.