ARUNDO Calamaorostis* o
Sm a ll R e e d .
TR1ANDR1A Digynid.
G en. C har. Cal. of 2 valves. Florets surrounded
with long down.
Spec. C har. Calyx single-flowered, longer than the
corolla. Panicle erect, diffuse. Flowers scattered#
erect. Awn terminal, short. Down longer than
the corolla.
S y n . Arundo Calamagrostis. Linn. Sp. Pi. 1 2 ] .
Sm. FI. Brit. 14 6. Hull. ed. 2 . 35. Relh. 44.
Knapp, t. 96. FI. Dan. t. 280. Schrad. Germ,
v. 1 . 2 14 . t. 4 . f . 4. Ehrh. Calam. 84.
A . epigejos. Hwds. 54.
Calamagrostis epigejos. With. 12 3 .
C . minor, glumis ruffis et viridibus. Rail Syn. 40 1 .
N a t i v e o f moist woods, and fenny places, flowering early
in July. It is rather an uncommon plant, chiefly noticed
hitherto in the counties of Norfolk, Cambridge, and Lincoln.
Root fihrous, or slightly creeping, perennial.. Stems erect,
3 or 4 feet high, round, very smooth, much more slender than'
in A . Pftragmites or epigejos, leafy, sometimes branched.
Leaves linear, pointed, narrow, bright green, roughish beneath,
sometimes a little hairy above. Sheaths long, close.
Stipula lanceolate, obtuse, often torn, smooth, deeurrent.
Panicle erect, much branched, loosely spreading. Flowers
scattered, erect, very numerous, on capillary rough stalks.
Calyx-valves bright brown or purplish, nearly equal, lanceolate,
pointed, keeled, roughish, slightly ribbed, much longer
than the corolla, whose valves are white, unequal, torn at the
top, the larger bearing a minute awn between its terminal segments.
The down is longer than the corolla, but scarcely so
long as the calyx.
This is certainly the Linnaean A . Calamagrostis, and what
we described in our v. 6. p. 403, though a wrong figure was
there annexed to the description, an error which- we shall correct
by a new page of letterpress- to t i 403.