TRIAND. DlGVN. 31 



racemed secuncl,spikelets drooping ovate two- flowered. lAghif. 

 p. 96 (M. mttaiilis var.). E. B. t. 1059. 



Hab. Lord Breadalbane's woods, Armaddy, in Nether-Lorn, Lighff. 

 On banks in Angus-shire, D. Don. llosslyn woods, plentiful, 

 Mr. Anwtt and Mr. GreviUe. Fl. May, June'. 1/ . 



One foot or more high, leafy. Zer/rc.v linear-lanceolate. Cal. glumes 

 ovate, convex, nerved, deep purple brown, margin pale. J 'aires 

 of the cor. cartilaginous, unequal, nerved, outer one large. Be- 

 tween the two perfect flowers the rudiments of a third, peduncu- 

 lated, consisting of a 2-valved hardened cor. without either pistil or 

 stamen. 



2. M. umjiora {JVood MeUc-gross), panicle branched slightly 

 (hooping, s>pikelets erect ovate with only one perfect floret. 

 Liglitf. p. 96 {M. milans). E. B. t. 1()38. 



Hab. Shady wood, not uncommon, Lighlf. Hamilton, Blantyre and 



Bothwell woods, Glasg■o^v, Ilopk. Rosslyn woods, plentiful, Mr. 



GreviUe. Ardvorlich and (Jastle Campbell, Mr. Arnott. Fl. June, 



July. %. 

 Imperfect flower \\\v:)i\ rather a long footstalk. Leaves broader than 



the last, and whole plant rather larger. 



3. M. ccendeu {purple M elk -grass), panicle erect subcoarctate, 

 spikelets erect oblongo-cylindrical. Light/, p. 96. E. B. 

 t. 750. 



Hab. Wet heathy places and moors, abundant. FL Aug. 1/ . 



Habit very different from the last, and has hence been made a genus, 

 Enodium of Gaud., and Monilia of the Baron de Beauvois. Culms 

 1 — 2 feet, or more, high. All the leaves, which are long and li- 

 near, acuminated, springing from the base, or from the single joint 

 immediately above it. Panicle from 2 — 8 inches in length, purple, 

 rarely, and probably only when growing in much sheltered situa- 

 tions, green. Cal. valves lanceolate, nearly equal. Florets gene- 

 rally 1 — 2 perfect and 1 sterile, much exceeding the cal. Anthers 

 large, purple. When there is but 1 flower in a cal., this is longer 

 than when there are two. Specimens in this state, with the whole 

 panicle pale green, slenderer, and the leaves somewhat exceeding 

 the panicle in height, yet diftering in noo the rrespect, aie the M.al- 

 pina of D. Don's MSS. inedit. — Brooms are made of their culms 

 in some p^rts of England. {JVith.) In Skye the fis'iermon make 

 excellent ropes for their nets of this grass. Light/. This circum- 

 stance in quoted by Withering as of the M. nutans. 



19. SESLERIA. 



1 . S. ccsrulea (blue Moor-grass), panicle spiked ovate bracteated, 

 spikelets 2 — 3-flowered, ext. valve of the Cor. arislate and 

 toothed. Light/, p. 100 {Cynosurus ca-r.). E. B. t. 1613. 



Hab. Highland mountains, common. Plentiful on Ben Lomond. 17. 

 April — June. 11 . 



Probably the very earliest flowering of the mountain grasses and an 

 exceedingly beautiful one. Much tufted ; C — 1 2 inches high. Leaves 



