178 TRIANDMA— DIGYNIA. Elymus. 



2. E. geniculates. Pendulous Sea Lyme-grass. 



Spike bent perpendicularly downward, lax ; main stalk 

 winged. Calyx awl-shaped, longer than the spikelets. 

 Leaves spinous-pointed. 



E. geniculates. Curt. Brit. Gr. 46. FL Br. 153. Engl. Bot. v. 23. 

 t. 1586. Knapp t. 109. Sincl. 269. 



Elymus. Linn. Am. Acad. v.7. 192. t. 2. f. 5. With. v. ). 134. *.2. 

 /". 2G. 



In marshes near tne coast, rare. 



Near Graveseud. Mr. Dickson. 



Perennial. July. 



ltoot of several downy fibres, scarcely creeping. Whole plant 

 glaucous, larger than the foregoing, but more slender in habit. 

 Stipula very short. Spike \\ or 2 feet long, lax, at first erect, 

 but while in flower becoming strongly bent, at an acute angle, 

 at the second or third spikelet, so as to become permanently 

 pendulous. Calyx-valves twice the length of the last, narrow 

 and tapering, smooth, half as long again as the spikelets. Florets 

 3 or 4 j the outer valve ribbed and downy. 



Cultivated for many years in a garden, this grass is little changed, 

 though all the spikes are not always reflexed. 



2. E. europ&as. Wood Lyme-grass. 



Spike erect. Florets about two, rough, awned, as well as 

 the calyx. Leaves flat, pliant. 



E. europaeus. Linn. Mant. 35. Willd. v. 1. 470. Fl. Br. 154. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 19. *. 1317. With. 170. Schrad. Germ. v. 1.402. 

 Host Gram. v. 1. 22. t. 28. Ehrh. Phyt. 3. 



Hordeum sylvaticum. Huds.57. Mart. Rust. t. 45. Knapp t.\07. 



H. n. 1537. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 248. 



Gramen secalinum majus sylvaticum. Raii Syn. 392. 



G. hordeaceum montanum, spica strigosiori brevius anstata. 

 Scheuchz. Agr. 16. Prodr. 14. t, 1. 



In woods, thickets and hedges, on a chalky soil. 



Not rare in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Derbyshire, and the north of 

 England. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous, tufted. Herbage of a grassy green. Stem erect, 2 

 feet high, simple, round, striated, smooth, most leafy in the 

 lower part. Leaves lanceolate, many-ribbed, flat, acute, rough 

 on both sides and at the edges. Sheaths clothed more or less 

 with deflexed hairs. Stipula very short, minutely notched. Spike 

 2 or 3 inches long, generally quite upright, close, green j its 

 main stalk angular, furrowed, rough, zigzag. Flowers 3 together 

 at each notch. Calyx-valves awl-shaped, very smooth and even 



