86 TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Milium. 



G. alopecuros minus^, spica longiore. Scheuchz. Agr. 154. 

 Cauda vulpis monspelliensium. Loh. Ic. v. 1 . 45./. 



In moist pastures near the sea, but rare. 



In Hampshire and Essex. Raij. Near Cley, Norfolk. Mr. W. 

 Humphrey , and Mr. Borrer. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root of several, somewhat downy, fibres. Stems generally nu- 

 merous, simple, smooth, a foot or more in height. Leaves 

 spreading, acute, flat, striated, rough at the ribs and margin ; 

 their sheaths long and smooth, with an oblong siipula, rough at 

 the back. Panicle pale, with a silky appearance from the long, 

 rough, shining awns of the calyx. Anth. short. Styles scarcely 

 any. /3 is a very trifling variety, diminished by want of nourish- 

 ment, as usual with annual grasses. 



2. P. littoralis. Perennial Beard-grass. 



Awns straight, about the length of the calyx. Root creep- 

 mg. 



P. littoralis. Comp. 13. 



Agrostislittoralis. Fl. Br. 78. Engl.Bot. v. 18. <. 1251. mth. 129 ? 

 Knapp t. 22. Dicks. H. Sice. fuse. 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 a foot 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, awnless 

 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 permanent. Anm^ 

 if present, jointed and twisted. Ncct. cloven, membra- 

 nous. Filam. capillary, not longer than the calyx. Germ. 

 ovate. Styles combined, or very short. Seed ovate, coated 

 with the horny eorolla. 



