TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
PHALARIS. 
Cal. 2-valved, keeled, of an equal length to, and 
inclofing the corolla. 
P, Panicle cylindrical, fpike-like, awnlefs: glumes arenaria.’ 
of the calyx keeled, very entire, ciliated: ftems 
branched at the bafe. 
It grows on fandy banks along the fea. Abun- 
dantly along the fand_ banks at Howth, and be- 
tween Howth and Baldoyle. At Sandymount 
along the banks, county of Dublin. 
A grafs of no merit in an agricultural point of 
view, being of a diminutive fize. A. June. 
There is a fpecies of the Phalaris (not indige- 
nous) cultivated in the botanic gardens, called 
Phalaris nodofa, or knotted canary grafs, and 
from my obfervations on it for years back, I 
would confider it as a good meadow grafs. It is 
a perennial, and not over coarfe; it produces root- 
leaves, ftems, and ftem leaves in abundance ; it is 
a fizable grafs, freely growing from feeds, not 
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