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ALOPECURUS

Volume 1 · 77 words · 1778 Edition

or Fox-tail grass, in botany, a genus of the triandra digynia class. There are seven species, viz. the pratensis, or meadow fox-tail grass; the bulbosus, or bulbous fox-tail grass; the geniculatus, or flore fox-tail grass; and the myosurus, or field fox-tail grass; these four grow wild in Britain: the argyritis, the monspelicanus, the panicous, and the hordeiformis, are all natives of France and the southern parts of Europe, except the last, which is a native of India*.