Holcus
(Holkos, the old Greek name of a grass). Soft Grass. ORD. Gramineae. A genus of eight species of annual or perennial grasses, natives of Europe, temperate Asia, North and South Africa. Panicles loose; spikelets compressed, two-flowered. The species are of easy culture in ordinary soil. The only one worth growing is the following:
H. lanatus albo-variegatus (woolly, white-variegated). l. soft, pubescent, with a broad central and narrow green stripes, the intermediate spaces and margin of a clear silvery-white. A well-marked, variegated perennial plant, forming a very neat tuft.