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blunt bifid fheath-feale. Panicle 3-forked, {pread- 
ing, few-flowered; branches rough, changing 
their direGtion in a curve; flowers hairy at the 
bafe, placed on alternate upright fruit-ftalks. 
Glumes, all nearly of a length, gnawed-like at 
top: inner valve of the corolla narroweft, and 
hairy at the bafe. Awn knee-bent, twilted, 
half as long again as the bloffom, and placed near 
its bafe. 
A. Panicle fpike-like: florets fitting, awned at 
precor. 
the bafe: leaves briftle-like: fheaths angular, . 
furrowed. 
This delicate grafs is to be met with on dry 
¢ommons, and on bare rocky grounds. On dry 
heaths and rocks, at the foot of the Dublin 
mountains, Howth, Lambay, and Ireland’s-eye, 
county of Dublin—on the rocks about Culfuar, 
Tinure, and Monefterboyce, county of Louth. 
It is a handfome delicate low grafs, of little 
confequence to the farmer, except that early in 
the fpring it may cover a part of his grounds» 
which abounds with rocks, and may be accept- 
able to fheep, or other of his fmall cattle, at that 
feafon. A. May. 
IRIs; 
