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minute, roundish, 1, 3, or 4-flowered ; rachilla jointed between the flowering 
glumes ; empty glumes 2, unequal, awnless ; flowering glumes longer, leathery, 
wedge-shaped, awnless, torn at the tip. Name from the Greek katabrosis, 
from the gnawed appearance of the tip of the glumes. 15. 
36. Melic-grass (IM¢élica).—Spikelets racemed or panicled, rounded, 1 or 
2-flowered ; rachilla much lengthened, and bearing a club-like head of 
flowering glumes ; empty glumes 2, nearly equal, awnless. Name from the 
Latin mel, honey. 18. 
37. Cock’s-foot-grass (Ddctylis).—Panicle 1-sided, the spikelets densely - 
overlapping at the ends of its branches; spikelets laterally compressed, 
l-sided, 3—4-flowered ; empty glumes 2, keeled, and with points at their 
tips ; flowering glumes larger, with a rough short awn. Name from the 
Greek daktulis, a finger. 29. 
38. Quake-grass (Briza).—Panicle much branched and loose ; spikelets 
egg-shaped or heart-shaped, laterally compressed ; rachilla jointed between 
the flowering glumes ; empty glumes 2, rounded at back; flowering glumes 
boat-shaped, overlapping, upper often flowerless. Name, the old Greek for 
this grass, from britho, to tremble. 28. 
39. Meadow-grass (Péa).—Panicles branched, usually loose ; spikelets 
compressed, 2 or many flowered; rachilla jointed between the flowering 
glumes ; empty glumes 2, shorter than the lowest flowering glume, unequal, 
keeled ; flowering glumes often webbed below, keeled, 5—7-nerved, with 
glassy tips. Name the Greek poa, fodder. 26. 
40. Manna-grass ((lycéria).—Panicles branched, loose or contracted ; 
spikelets narrow, rounded, many flowered; rachilla jointed between the 
flowering glumes ; empty glumes 2, shorter than the lowest flowering glume, 
unequal, awnless; flowering glumes convex, not keeled, tip blunt, nerves 
3—9. Name from the Greek glukeros, sweet, in allusion to the flavour of the 
grain. 26 (Poa). 
41. Fescue-grass (Festica).—Spikelets in racemes or panicles, rounded, 
3 or more flowered ; rachilla jointed between the flowering glumes; empty 
glumes 2, unequal ; flowering glumes 3—5-nerved, with a point or awn at 
or near the tip, upper one sometimes empty. Name an old Latin one. 31. 
42, Brome-grass (Brémus).—Spikelets panicled or racemed, rounded 
or laterally compressed, 5 or many flowered ; rachilla jointed between the 
flowering glumes; empty glumes 2, unequal, shorter than lowest flowering 
glumes, leathery, awnless ; flowering glumes, convex or keeled, 5—9-nerved, 
1—3-awned. Name from bromos, the Greek name for a kind of oat. 32. 
43, False Brome-grass (Brachypédium).—Spikelets arranged in two 
rows on the rachis, many-flowered ; rachilla jointed between the flowering 
glumes ; empty glumes 2, or rarely 1; flowering glumes closely overlapping, 
7—9-nerved, awn, if present, terminal. Name from the Greek, brachus, 
short, and podion, foot, in allusion to the almost sessile spikelets. 38. 
Tribe IX. HorprEa.—Spikelets seated in the notches of an unbranched 
rachis, either singly or 2 or 3 from one notch ; one or several flowered. 
44, Darnel (Léliwm).-—Spikelets flattened, many-flowered, solitary in 
notches, inserted with their, edge to the rachis; empty glume 1, except in 
