438 THE GKASS FAMILY. 



Remarkably fine between Handforth and Styal, and about Norcliffe 

 Hall, the lawn before which is principally composed of it. Marple 

 Vale. Reddish Vale. Slope of Mere Clough reservoir. Fl. June. 



E.B. V. 340; Baxter, ii. 104. 

 The most graceful and delicate of the British grasses, the spikelets, -wliich are 

 triangular, and resemble little rattlesnakes' tails, hung on such slender stalks 

 that they quiver with the shghtest touch or breath of air. 



44. Great Brown-eeed — [Glyceria aqucitica.) 

 Sides of ponds, ditches, and water in general, not very common. 

 Abundant near Timperley Bridge. Mobberley. Gee Cross. Fl. July. 

 Curtis, ii. 304 ; E. B. xix. 1315 (as Poa aquatica). 

 A tall, reed-hke, and very handsome aquatic grass. 



45. Floating Sweet-gkass — (^Glyceria JlUitans.) 

 Everywhere in ditches and slow streams, and on the margins of 

 ponds. Fl. summer. 



Cmlis, i. 7; E. B. xxii. 1520 (as Poafluitans). 

 A very beautiful grass, easily identified by its leaves floating flat upon the 

 surface of the water, and by the tall, very slim, green, and silvery panicles, which 

 are often irregulai'ly branched, and dressed with white anthers. 



46. Annual Garden-grass — [Poa annua.) 

 Everywhere as a weed, with chickweed and groimdsel, and like 

 them again, in blossom always. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 6 ; E. B. xvi. 1141 ; Baxter, iv. 288. 



47. Smooth Meadow-grass — [Poa pratcnsis.) 

 Everywhere in meadows and pastures and on hedge-banks, pre- 

 feiTing dry ground. Fl. spring and summer, commencing early. 

 Curtis, i. 77 ; E. B, xv. 1073. 



48. RouGHiSH Meadow-gbass — {Poa trivialis.) 

 In similar situations, but giving the preference to moist ground, 

 equally general, and flowering at the same seasons. 

 Curtis, i. 78 ; E. B. xv. 1072. 



49. Sylvan Meadow-grass — {Poa nemornlis.) 

 Woods, doughs, and shady places, rare. Gatloy Carrs. (Mr. Edward 

 Stone.) Reddish and Arden Woods. Plentiful in a hedge on the way 

 toCotterill. (Mr. Leigh.) Pavement Lane, Mobberley. (Mr. Holland.) 



Fl. June. 



H. H. \ii. 12(15. 



