arundo

[Lat. arundo = a reed.] A Linnæan genus of gra es, formerly made to include several British species; but all these are by some botanists now removed from it, and placed in other genera. Bentham partly returns to the older view, and gives one British Arundo viz., A. phragmites, the Common Reed. It is Phragmites communis of most modern botanists. It is a stout perennial, five, six, or more feet high, with a long creeping root-stock, long leaves, and a small or large panicle of flowers. It occurs in Britain in wet ditches, marshes, ., flowering towards the end of summer and in autumn. [AMMOPHILA, PSAMMA, CAL A MAG ROSTIS.] A. donar supplies material for fishing-rods, and is imported for the purpose from the south of Europe, where it is indigenous. The striped-leaved variety, formerly more common than it now is in gardens, is called Gardener's Garters.