90 IIORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENS IS. 



ciliated, permanent ; germen emavginate ; seed free, two- 

 pointed ; panicle compound, but little scattered. R. S. Linn. 

 Sys. Veg. 

 ERAGROSTIS poacoides, per. See Poa eragrostis. 

 polymorpha, per. various. Poa polj/rnorpha. Willd., nat. 



India. 

 pilosa, ann. pilose. See Poa pilosa. 

 verticillata, ann. verticillate. 



tenella, ann. slender, nat. India. Poa tenella, Willd. 

 ferruginea, ann. iron-coloured, nat. Japan. 

 cynosuroides, ann. dog's-tail-like, nat. Egypt. 

 cyperoides, ann. cyperus-like, nat. C. G. Hope. 

 mucronata, ann. mucronate, nat. E. Indies. 

 interrupta, ann. interrupted-spiked, nat. N. Holland. Poa in- 

 ternipta, Brown. Prodr. i. 180. 

 BRIZA. Quaking-grass. Generic character: calyx 2-valved, 

 many-flowered ; jiowers collected into heart-shaped spikets ; 

 corolla 2-valved, exterior valve the shape and size of the calyx 

 husks, inferior valve smaller, flat, roundish ; seed com- 

 pressed. 

 elatior, per. tall, nat. Greece. Smith, Fl. Gr. i. p. 57, n. 179. 

 we(f?!«, ^er. common quaking-grass, indig. May and June. E. 



Bot. 340. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 133. Hort. Gram. Fo. 97. 

 geniciilata, per. knee-jointed, nat. C. G. Hope. Thunb. Fl. 



Cap. i. p. 148. 

 minor, ann. small quaking-grass, nat. Brit. June. E. Bot. 



1316. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 132. 

 maxima, ann. great quaking-grass, nat. Italy. August. Willd. 



Host. ii. t. 30. 

 humilis, ann. dwarf, nat. Iberia. Linn. Sys. Veg. i. p. 522. 

 virens, ann. green, nat. Spain. August. Linn. Spec. 103. 

 spicata, ann. spiked. 

 Monspessulana, Montpelier, nat. France. July. AUion. Pe- 



dem. n. 2220. 



rubra, ann. red, nat. India. B. maxima, var. Decand. Fl. Fr. iii. 



n. 1625. Hort. Gram. Wob. 



SPARTINA. Cord-grass. Generic character : calyx 2-valved, 



(3-valved R. S. L. Sys.), 1-flowered-, unequal, keeled, very 



acute ; corolla 2-valved, husks awnless ; bijid emarginate, and 



toothed shorter than the calyx ; nectary rather truncated, 



fringed ; styles long, combined, separate above, stigma woolly ; 



