

TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Rottbollia. 169 



L. Panicle undivided, pointing one way : spikets awned. bromoi'desL 



Huds 





Ray 17. 2. 



From 6 to 12 inches high ; slanting, cylindrical, smooth, a 

 little branched. Leaves a little rolled inwards, sharp, naked, 

 much shorter than the leaf-stalk. Sheath-scale membranaceous, 

 bluntish. Spikets on fruit-stalks, strap-shaped ; florets from 4 

 to 8 in each. Fruit-stalks short, thick, rough. Husk 1 valve, 

 strap-shaped, concave, awned. Bloss. 2 valves, unequal. Outer 

 'valve larger, strap-shaped, keeled, awned, rough. Inner valve 

 smaller, flat, strap-shaped, awnless. A*wn twice the length of 

 the floret. Huds. 



Wild Oat -grass ) or Drank. Sea Darnel., Sea coasts, in loose 



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sand. 



May, J 



ROTTBOLLIA. Cat of 1 or 2 valves, egg-spear- 

 shaped, flat : florets alternate, on a zigzag 

 spike-stalk : Moss. 2-valved, awnless. 



'ta. 



114. 



Suppl 



Fl.dan. 93&-H. ox. viii. 2. 8-Pari. \U6-Barr. 5 and 6^ 

 Scheuch. 2. 1-Plui. 1J)1. 6. 



Spike without awns, smooth, thread-shaped, crooked, but 

 little thicker than the straw. Calyx of 2 valves : both placed 

 outwardly. Bloss. valves placed contrariwise to those of the ca- 

 lyx. Linn. All the florets which I have ever examined are 

 hermaphrodite. St. Stems branched. Spike cylindrical, not 

 thicker than the stem, whence it is not readily observable, unless 

 when in flower, Ray. Mr. Woodward. Leaves short, firm. 

 Flowering stems ascending, below whitish, cylindrical and smooth. 

 Spike green. Florets^ one to each joint, alternate. Calyx valves 

 strap-spear-shaped, ending in a stiff point, the point lying in a 

 notch of the joint above, stiff, green, furrowed without, white 

 and shining within, one expanding when the pollen is ripe. 

 Blossom nearly as long as the calyx. Woodward. 



JEgilops incurvata. Linn. Sea Hard-grass. Sea coast. [Salt 



Marsh, below King's Weston, near Bristol. St. — Near Yar- 

 mouth. Mr. Crowe.— Near Seaton, county of Durham. Mr. 

 Robson.] P. July, Aug. 



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EXYMUS 



MUS. Cal. lateral, 2-valved 

 ther, many-flowered. 



eral tog- 



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