TRTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Poa. 147 



Gathered on St. Vincent's Rocks near Bristol by M*. Milne, 

 to ho observed to me, that Mr. Curtis first found it there ; just 

 at the entrance into the walk from the Hotwell House. — Sir 

 Thomas Frankland found this plant growing on the waste 

 ground near the Dock, betwixt Bristol and the Hot wells. Also 

 on the new Pier at Scarborough. It grows prostrate in circular 



patches. 



A. June — Aug 





P. Panicle compact, branched : branches in pairs : spikets mant ima. 



oblong : florets blunt: leaves sharp, edges rolled in: 

 straw cylindrical, slanting. Huds. 



Dicks, h. s.-Fl.dan. 251. 



Root perennial, creeping. Straw from 6 to 12 inches high; 

 smooth. Leaves on leaf-stalks, expanding, bare. Panicle oblong, 

 upright, the lowermost branches sometimes a little expanding. 

 Florets from 3 to 7 or 8 ; bluntish, smooth. Huds. Leaves rolled 

 in so as to resemble rushes. Panicle purplish, but little spread- 

 ing ; composed of narrow, oblong spiculse, not awned. Ray # 

 Panicle in the fig. of flor. dan. too much expanded. Bloss. inner 

 valve very minutely serrulated. Has been supposed to be the 

 Festuca fluitans changed by a maritime situation, but this opinion 

 is not probable, for the outer and larger valve of the blossom in 

 this plant, wants the ribs which are so strongly marked in the 

 Festuca fluitans, the inner valve wants the open cleft at the end, 

 and besides other differences, I have examined the F. fluitans 

 whilst growing in the salt marshes at Lymington, and found it 

 vary but little from that growing in inland places, Mr. Afzelius 

 believes it to be the same as the Festuca adscendens of Retz. prodr* 

 fl. Scandinav. 



Sea Meadow-grass. Sea coast frequent. [Salt marshes Norf. 

 and Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. On the river side between 

 Bristol and the Hotwells. Mr. Swayne. Near the canal from 

 Droitwich to the Severn. Mr. Baker.] P. June, July. 



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P. Panicle compact : straw slanting, compressed. compres sa, 



£• Bot. 365- FL dan. 7^2-Vaill. 13. h-Leer$ 5. \-Mont. lO, 

 Florets generally 6 in each calyx. Linn. Root somewhat 



creeping. Spikets almost sitting, near together. Leers. Much 

 larger than those of the P. pratensis. Mr. Dickenson. About 

 a foot high. Straw trailing, then ascending, smooth. Leaves 

 nearly smooth. Panicle 2 inches long, slender. Spikets mostly 3 

 or 4 flowered. Bloss. rarely woolly at the base. 



Creeping Meadow-grass. Walls, house tops, and other very 

 dry places. P- June* 



P- Panicle close : outer petal hairy at the edge : straw ly- decum'bens, 



I ing down„ 



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