MAY. 125 
_ yellow colour, with silvery hairs; from one to two feet 
high, and blossoming twice in the year. One of the earliest 
and best of the Grasses found in rich pastures. 
TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
GLUMACE. GRAMINACE2. 
MELICA. (Metic-Grass.) 
Generic Character. Panicle with few flowers. Calyx two- 
valved, two-flowered. Corolla of two valves; no awns. 
Metica untrtora. (Plate VII. Fig. 27.) Wood Melic- 
Grass. This pretty Grass is found in many shady woods 
very abundantly, and is very ornamental, with its fine stalks 
and single flowers, which are slightly drooping and of a 
peculiar purplish brown colour. Leaves rather broad. 
Metica nuTANS. Mountain Melic-Grass, This species 
grows in the north of England, in mountainous countries. 
The leaves are narrower than the last. The spikes are 
nearly simple, spikelets with two flowers. About two feet 
high. 
