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MELICA pallida, per. pale, uat. S. Aiuer. 



capillar is, per. hair-like, nat. S. Amer. 



festncoides, per. fescue-like, nat. C. G. H. 



minuta, iier. small, nat. Italy. June. 



altissima, per. tall, nat. Siberia. 

 SECALE. Rye. Calyx two-valved, two-flowered, solitary ; 

 corolla two-valved, two-flowered, exterior valve acumi- 

 nate, keel ciliated, ending in a long awn ; interior valve 

 flat, lanceolate ; seed naked, half cylindrical, pointed 

 at one end. 



cereale, aim. rye. Supposed a native of Crete or Siberia. 



villosum, ami. hairy, nat. South of Europe and Levant. 



orientale, aun. oriental, nat. of the Archipelago. 



Creticnm, aim. Cretan, nat. of Candia, or Crete. 



Sect. VIIL Grasses with three stamina, two styles, two 

 flowers ill each calyx — Flowers of different sexes. 



HIEROCHLOE. Holy-grass*. Generic character ; ^ore/s 

 three, central one perfect, with two stamens, lateral 

 ones barren with three ; corolla permanently membra- 

 nous ; seed loose ; styles distinct. 

 fragrans, per. fragrant holy-grass, nat. N. Amer. 

 borealis, per. Northern holy-giass, indig. April and May. 

 alpiiius, per. alpine holy-grass, nat. Greenland. 

 redolens, per. redolent or balmy holy-grass, nat. New 



Zealand. 

 Australis, per. Southern holy-grass. 

 HOLCUS. Soft-grass. Generic character : CAf^ya- two-valved, 

 two-flowered, seldom three, awnless, corolla two-valved, 

 exterior valve awned, interior valve awnless, least, 

 unisexual or barren flowers, on foot-stalks— they also 

 want the inner husks ; seed ovate, awned. 

 avenaceus, per. tall oat-like soft-grass, indig. June till 

 October. 



* HierocMoe Z/oreaZis is said to be used at high festivals, for strewing 

 the churches in Prussia ; as Acorus calamus, has, time out mind, been 

 employed in the cathedral and streets of Norwich, on the Mayor's 

 diiv. — Sm. Engl, Fl. vol. i, ]». 111. 



