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FLOWERS OI' THE SEA-COAST 



useful in biiitlin;^ the sand tOL;cthcr and j)rcvcntinL;- erosion. It is from 

 tiiis .<4roup, fornurly inchidcd in '/'riliann, thai the wheats are derived. 



RrSHY WuHAT Grass (Agropyron pittreiim, Beauv. ) 



Essential .Si'eciitc Char.actkks: — 



343. Agropyron jimicitm, Beauv. — Root creeping, stem glabrous, 

 prostrate, leaves involute, ribbed, hairy, rachis tender, awnless glumes 

 ribbed, outer palea blunt. 



Squirrel Tail Grass (H(jrdeuni marilimum, liuds.) 

 (See illustration on p. 217) 



The distribution of this uni\ersal maritime grass is from Denmark 

 southwards, in Elurope, and in X. Africa. In Great Britain it is found 

 throughout the Peninsula proxince, in the Channel province, not in 

 Wilts, only in Essex, and W. Kent in the Thames province, E. Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Cambridge. W. Gloucs. Glamorgan, Carnarvon, X. Lines. 

 S.E. Yorks, N.E. Yorks. Durham, southwards to Kent, and is absent 

 in Wales elsewhere, and in the Channel Islands. 



.StjLiirrel Tail Grass is another of those maritime species which 



