TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Milium. 87 



Agrostis littoralis. FL Br. 78. Engl Bot.v. 18. t. 1251. With. 129? 

 Knapp t. 22. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 16. 1. 



In muddy salt-marshes, rare. 



Near Cley, Norfolk. Rev. Henry Bryant. On the Essex coast. 

 Mr. Dickson. Near the powder magazine, about 4 miles from 

 Woolwich. Mr. Geo. Jackson. 



Root creeping, branched. Stems branched, smooth ; decumbent 

 and taking root at their lower joints ; about afoot high. Leaves 

 rough on both sides, as well as at their edges. Stipula slightly 

 downy. Sheaths striated, smooth. Pan. lobed, purplish, shining, 

 but less silky than the former, the awns being so much shorter. 

 Withering's figure, t. 23, represents the foregoing, but wants 

 the awn of the corolla, and his description does not answer well 

 to either species. 



34. MILIUM. Millet-grass. 



Linn. Gen. 33. Juss. 29. Fl. Br. 75. 



Cal. of 2 unequal, concave, tumid, keeled, clasping, awn- 

 less valves, containing a single floret. Cor. of 2 unequal 

 valves, inclosed in the calyx ; the outermost broadest, 

 sometimes awned at the back, finally hardened and per- 

 manent. Aw?i, if present, jointed and twisted. Nect. 

 cloven, membranous. Filam. capillary, not longer than 

 the calyx. Germ, ovate. Styles combined, or very short. 

 Seed ovate, coated with the horny corolla. 



Root perennial, or annual. Stems erect, leafy, jointed. Pa- 

 nicle loose or dense, much branched. 



The hardened corolla, forming a coat to the seed, affords a 

 mark of distinction between this genus and Agrostis, no 

 less obvious than important, as those most deeply versed 

 in grasses will most readily allow. 



1. M. effusum. Spreading Millet-grass. 

 Flowers in a loose spreading panicle, without awns. 



M. effusum. Linn. Sp. PI. 90. Willd. v. 1. 360. Fl. Br. 7b. Engl. 



Bot. v. 16. t. 1 106. Curt .Loncl. fuse. 4. t. 12. Knapp. t. 19. 



Hook. Scot. 24. Leers 18. t. S.f. 7. " Fl. Dan. 1. 1 143." Schrad. 



Germ. v. 1. 197. Sincl. 309. 

 M. n. 1525. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 243. 



Gramen miliaceum. Raii Syn. 402. Ger. Em. 6.f. Lob. Ic. 3./. 

 G. miliaceum vulgare. Moris, v. 3. 197. sect. 8. t.5.f. 10. 

 G. sylvaticum, panicula miliacea sparsa. Bauh. Pin. 8. Theatr. 140. 



/. J4J. Scheuchz. Agr. 133. t.3.f. 6. 



In rather moist shady places, frequent. 

 Perennial. June, July. 



