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glumes not awned, glabrous, leaves blue-green, panicle 
violet; alpine pastures. . splendens, Presl. (including 
pubescens, Hausm.); similar, but empty glumes covered 
with dense wool; Tirol, Carinthia. XK. alpicola, G. and 
G.; empty glumes awned, spikelets 2-flowered, ashy- 
white ; Piedmont, Dauphiny. 
29. MOLINIA, Schr. 
Spikelets in a contracted panicle, 2- or more-flowered, 
conical, terete. 
M. cerulea, Mcench. ; stem wiry, nearly leafless, spike- 
lets dark violet ; moist, sub-alpine, common. JM. serotina, 
M. K. (Diplachne serotina, Lk.); stem leafy, spikelets 
shortly awned; slopes; Valais, Vaud, Ticino. 
30. CATABROSA, Beauv. 
Spikelets in a diffuse panicle with whorled branches, 
2- or more-flowered. Not alpine. 
C. aquatica, Beauv.; panicle large, pyramidal, stem 
6-12 in., bent below, leaves flat; in water. 
31. MELICA, L. 
Spikelets 2- or more-flowered ; upper flowering glumes 
empty, convolute, forming a club. 
M. nutans, L.; spikelets drooping, with two fertile 
flowers; woods, common. JZ. unzflora, Retz.; spikelets 
very few, erect, on long stalks, with only one fertile 
flower; mountain woods, frequent. MW. ciliata, L.; 
panicle dense, continuous; rocky hills; Southern Swit- 
zerland, Jura, rare. M. glauca, Schultz (nebrodensis, 
