j48 TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA, Briza 



me'dia. 





Dicks, b. s.-E. hot. 79%-Fl. dan. l62-P/uL 34. 1-H. ox. 



viii. 1. b-Mont. 2. l-Leers 7. b-Scheuch. 3. l6. A. B. C. 



Cat. 3-flowered, nearly allied to Melica. Linn. Panicle not 

 branched, about lj. inch Jong; Spikets S or 6\ CaL as long as 

 the spiket, 3 to 5-flowered, awnless. Bloss. awnless, hairy at the 

 edge, and sometimes at the base : outer valve larger, with 3 teeth 



at the end. , 



Festuca decumbent* Sp. PL Barren moistish pastures, P.Aug. 



glau'ca. P. Panicle open: spikets mostly 3-flowered : florets taper- 

 ing to a point, woolly at the base : leaves awl-shaped. 



/. dan. 9^4. 



May 



glaucous colour, Vahl. About 10 inches high. Stem smoothish. 

 Leaves rough at the edges. Panicle 2 inches long, hardly 1 broadj 

 few-flowered, but little branched, 3 or 4 florets in each spiket. 



Poa pratensls. /3 alpina. Huds. not P. alpina of Linnseus, as 

 I was assured by Mr. Afzelius. Mountains in the North of 

 England. Huds. [Crib y DdeseiL Mr, Griffith, — On the 

 rocks of Ben Lawers at great heights. Mr. Brown.] 



P. June, July* 



BRI'ZA. CaL 2-valved, many-flowered : Spiket 2- 



rowed ; valves heart-shaped, blunt ; the inner 

 minute. 



mi'nor. B. Spikets triangular : calyx longer than the florets. 



Diets, h. s.-Kmph* 8-//. ox. viii. 6. AJ-Barr. \6~Park. 

 1165.5. 



Small Quake grass* In pastures. [Plentifully near Penzance. 

 - June.] A. Linn. P. Huds. July. 



Spikets egg-shaped : calyx shorter than the florets. 



Gram. pasc. -Dicks, h. t.-Fl. dan. 258-£. hot. 3-iO-H. ox. 

 viii. 6. 45-Trag. $7Q-Barr. 15. 2-Ger. em. 86. 2-C B. 

 22. l-Park. 11 6.5. 2. 6- J. B. ii. 469. 2. 6-Leers 7. 2- 

 Scheuch. 4. $-Mont. 2><$-D<warf specimens, C. B. th. 25. I 



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difficulty 



from the Linnaean character, it may be observed, that in the A 

 media the inner valve of the blossom is finely fringed at the 

 edges, but entire at the end, whilst in the B. miliar it h not 

 fringed at the edges, but cloven at the end. 





