TRIANDRIA DIG¥NIA. 55d 
and roofs. It is neither ufeful in meadows, paf- 
tures or wafte places, unlefs to {mall birds for its 
feed. A. July. 
ee Cue Runge 
Cuife cruidbata. 
EnciisH.—Stif, or Hard Meadow-gra/s. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, upright, 
from 3 to 6 inches, ftiff, very fmooth. Leaves 
acute, flender, rolled in at the edges, very even 
underneath, rough above. Sheath-/cale blunt, 
finely cut. Panicle fpear-fhaped, ftiff, decom- 
pound: little branches alternate; little {pikes on 
inflexible fruit-ftalks which are fhorter than the 
{pikes they fupport, ftrap-fhaped, containing 
about 8 florets in each. Calyx, valves nearly 
equal, keeled, acute. Corolla, valves fomewhat 
acute, fkinny at top: inner valve ciliated. 
P. Panicle clofe, pointing one way: ftems flant- 
ing, flatted: roots creeping. 
It grows on walls, houfe-tops, and on other 
very dry places. On walls and dry banks be- 
tween Galway and Tuam—about Tighmhuillin 
and Tullyallen, county of Louth. Although 
this grafs encreafes faft by its reots, and fends 
forth 
COMDTESS2. 
