296 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



Glumes small^ obtuse. A coarse grass, making the great part of the 

 hay iu marshy lands. 



2. G.fuitans, (R. Er.) floating Sweet-grass. Engl. Bot. Suppl. 

 t. 2975. Parn. Gr. t. 95. 



Locality. B}'- the sides of the Avon, canal, wet places and ditches. 

 P. Fl. June, September, Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Generally distributed 

 in all the Districts. Flowering stems decumbent and rooting at the 

 base. Sheaths smooth, striate. Leaves long, linear, acuminate, 

 pale green, rough on both surfaces. Ligule oblong. Panicle erect, 

 slender, very long, nearly simple. 8pikelets linear, of 7 to 12 ad- 

 pressed lanceolate-oblong, acute flowers. Lotoer palea nearly thrice 

 as long as broad. Anthers about five times as long as broad, purple, 

 pale yellow when empty.^ 



3. Gr. plicata, (Fries.) folded-leaved Meadow-grass. Reich Icones, 

 vii. 79. G. flidtans, (Sm.) Engl. Bot. t. 1520. Parn. Gr. t. 45. 



Locality. Stagnant water and wet places. P. Fl. June, August. 

 Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. In all the Districts but local, and not so frequent 

 as the last species, G.fuitans, but doubtless often passed over for it. 

 Panicle rather broad and compound, nearly smooth, erect with 

 flowers, divaricate with fruit. Spikelets oblong, linear, of 4 to 12 

 oval-oblong, rather acute flowers. Lower pale twice as long as broad. 

 Sheaths rough, furrowed. Leaves glaucous, bluntish, plicate when 

 young. Ligule shorter. Anthers ahout three times as broad as long , 

 cream-coloured, fuscous when empty. This species cannot well be 

 mistaken for Gr. fluitans, on account of the compound panicle, with 

 much more numerous spikelets. 



Sclero-chlo'a (Pal. de Beaitv.) Hard-grass. 

 Linn. CI. iii., Ord. ii. 



Name. From {scleros) hard, and {chloe) grass. 



1. S. rigida, (Link) hard Meadow-grass. Glyceria, (Sm.) 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1371. Parn. Gr. t. 43. 



Locality. On wall-tops, and dry barren ground. A. Fl. June. 

 Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Recorded in all the Districts. Whole plant 

 very rigid and wiry, 3 to 6 inches long, ascending or erect. Leaves 



^ The abundance of tliis^grass about tbe ditches of Cheddar is said to be the 

 cause of Cheddar cheese being so famous. T.B.F. 



