TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Melicd. 113 



2. M, nutans. Mountain Melic-grass. 



Petals beardless. Panicle close, drooping, nearly simple. 

 Flowers pendulous. Spikelet with two perfect florets. 



M. nutans. Linn. Sp. PL 98. Willd. v. 1. 382. Fl. Br. 92. Engl. 



Bot. v. 15. t. 1059. Curt. Lond.fasc: 6. t. 4. Mart. Rust. t. 65. 



Knappt. 42. Rel. Rudb. 18./. 1. Hook. Scot. 30. Graves Br. 



Gr. t. 50. Schrad. Germ. v. 1.267. &7»re6. Gram. w. 2. 62. *. 6. 

 /. A. £lb*< Gram. w. 2. 9. t. 10. Leers 24. f. 3./ 4. 

 M. montana. Huds.37. 

 Poa n. 1472. HaW. Hwf. ». 2. 225. 

 Gramen avenaceum, locustis rubris, montanum. Scheuchz. Agr. 



171. t. 3. /. 16, D— F. J5aw/i. T/ieatr. \5o.f. Prodr. 20. /. #aii 



%i.403. Mora, v. 3. 215. sec*. 8. f. 7./. 48, bad. 

 G. avenaceum locustis rubris. Park. Theatr. 1151./. 



In mountainous woods in the north of England, and in Scotland. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping, as in the preceding. Leaves smoother, and rather 

 narrower, with an extremely short stipula. Panicle for the most 

 part simply racemose ; sometimes divided in the lower part. 

 Fl. of the colour of the last, but more pendulous, and essen- 

 tially different in having two perfect florets, besides one or two 

 abrupt, long- stalked, neuter ones. The outer valve of the co- 

 rolla, in the former, is strongly and copiously ribbed j the inner 

 very thick, and minutely downy, at the margin. 



3. M. carulea. Purple Melic-grass. 



Petals beardless, acute. Panicle close, erect, compound. 

 Flowers upright, cylindrical. 



M. cserulea. Linn. Mant. 2. 325. Willd. v. 1 . 383. Fl. Br. 93. 



Engl. Bot. v.W. t. 750. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. 1. 1 1 . Knapp t. 40. 



Hook. Scot. 3 1 . Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 269. Host Gram. v. 2. 7. t. 8. 

 Aira cserulea. Linn. Sp. PL 95. Huds. 33. Leers 22. t. 4./. 7. 



Fl. Dan. t. 239. 

 Molinia caerula. Beauv. Agr. 68. 1. 14./. 6. 

 Arundo n. 1 5 18. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 24 1 . 

 Gramen pratense serotinum, panicula longa purpurascente. Raii 



Syn. 404. Moris, v. 3. 201. sect. 8. t. 5./ 22. 

 G. arundinaceum enode minus sylvaticum. Scheuchz. Agr. 209. 

 G. paniculatum autumnale, panicula ampliore, e viridi nigricante. 



26.207. tA.f. 11, 12. 



In barren sandy boggy ground, especially about turfy pools on 

 mountainous heaths. 



Perennial. August. 



A hard coarse reedy grass, varying greatly in luxuriance, rather 

 artificially referred to this genus, having more the habit, though 

 not the fructification, of Arundo. The root consists of many 



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