alba. 
28 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
GCacnreyn mapa. 
’ Taenfhér mara. 
Encuisu.—Sea Bent-gra/s. 
Ob. Stems creeping, ftriking out fibres from 
IRISH. 
the joints, then afcending. Leaves, and fheaths, 
rough, Panicle from 3 to 4 inches, compat. 
Calyx, inner valve fmooth; outer valve ferrulated 
towards the top. Corolla, outer valve narrowelt, 
and near balf as fhort as the inner. 
A. Panicle loofe: calyx, glumes equal, rough on 
the keel, awnlefs: ftems creeping. 
It grows in bogs, marfhes, and wet places. 
Marfhy fituations at Balalla, and along the foot 
of the Dublin mountains, county of Dublin,— 
Marfhy and wet fituations about Rabran, ‘Tinure 
and Mount Oriel, near Collon, county of Louth. 
As a pafture grafs in fuch fituations it is not un- 
profitable, being abundant in foliage and ftems, 
and endures the feverity of winter and drought 
of fummer amazingly. As a meadow grafs not 
worthy of cultivation. Small cattle cat it, | 
P. July. 
IrisH. 
