. Handbook of grasses, treating of their structure, classification, geographical distribution and uses, also describing the British species and their habitats. Grasses. 32 BRITISH SPECIES hair-tuft; flowering gluine neaiiy as long as the empty ones ; hairs at its base only about half as long ; awn inserted below the middle of the flowering glume and scarcely exceeding its apex. The Irish variety, D. Hookeri, has the uppermost ligule acute, and the hairs are about three-fourths the length of the empty glumes. Perennial, flowering June, July. Deschampsia flexuosa, var. setacea, uliginosa or disc
. Handbook of grasses, treating of their structure, classification, geographical distribution and uses, also describing the British species and their habitats. Grasses. 32 BRITISH SPECIES hair-tuft; flowering gluine neaiiy as long as the empty ones ; hairs at its base only about half as long ; awn inserted below the middle of the flowering glume and scarcely exceeding its apex. The Irish variety, D. Hookeri, has the uppermost ligule acute, and the hairs are about three-fourths the length of the empty glumes. Perennial, flowering June, July. Deschampsia flexuosa, var. setacea, uliginosa or discolor, has leaves conduplicate (not solid), glaucous ; uppermost ligule long and acute, pedicel of upper flowering glume longer ; turfy bogs. Our fourth group consists of a dozen species, which, with one exception, are found only in woods, copses, and shrubby places, or by shady hedgerows. Holms mollis, the Creepinj; Soft-grass, is perhaps the com- monest of our sylvan species, and is generally distributed throughout Britain; sometimes met with in open situations. Rootstock extensively creeping. Leaves flat, rather broadly linear-lanceolate, more or less hairy, with very uneven ribs and slightly rough margins ; basal sheaths white with red veins. Culms i-i-^ ft. Panicle with short, mostly paired branches, spreading when in flower. Spikelets nearly \ inch long, greenish-white or marked with purple, 2-flowered; the lower flower perfect and its glume awnless, the upper sta- minate with a dorsal awn on its glume; empty glumes nearly smooth but ciliated on the keel; awn scabrid, considerably ex- ceeding the spikelet, ultimately kneed but not hooked. Perennial, flowering middle of July to autumn. Festuca gigantea, the Great Bearded Fescue, is fairly abundant and generally distributed. Rootstock tufted. Leaves large, flat, tapering, scabrid above and on the edges, smooth and shining beneath, bright green. Both leaves and sheaths are glabrous (without hairs) ; auricles prominent, purpli
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