Bent-grass, in botany: A genus of the triandra order, belonging to the digynia clas of plants; and, in the natural method, ranking under the 4th order, Graminae. The characters are: The calyx is a one-flowered, two-valved, pointed gluma, rather less than the corolla. The corolla is two-valved and pointed. The stamina have three capillary filaments, which are larger than the corolla. The antherae are forked. The pistillum has a roundish germen; the fil- li are two, reflected, and villous; the stigmata tipped longitudinally. The pericarpium is the corolla growing to the seed, not gaping. The seed is one, globular, and pointed at both ends. There are 15 species; eight of them natives of Britain.