LAGURUS (from lagos, a hare, and oura, a tail). Hare's-tail Grass. ORD. Gramineae. A monotypic genus, distinguished by the inflorescence being in round spikelike panicles, and the scarious glumes ending in a long fringed bristle. The species is one of the handsomest of British grasses. It is a hardy annual, and thrives best when sown in pots during August and September, wintered in a cold frame or greenhouse, and planted out in the open the following spring. LAGURUS ovatus (ovate).* fl., spike ovate, many-flowered, woolly. June to September. l. lanceolate, acute, ribbed, downy on both sides; sheaths inflated, ribbed, very downy. Culms about 1ft. high, erect, round. Mediterranean region, West Coast of Europe, Channel Islands. (Sy. En. B. 1712.)