60 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
inwards. Sheath-fcale blunt, notched at top. 
Panicle upright; branches diftant in femiwhirls, 
fomewhat waved, of various lengths: the under. 
ones pointing downwards. Calyx, valves unequal, 
keeled, fmall, blunt, fkinny on the edges, Morets 
diftant, nearly cylindrical, very blunt: inner valve 
notched and rough on the edge. 
BRIZA. 
“Cal. 2-valved, many-flowered. Spikets, 2-rowed, 
Bloffom, 2-valves, bellying out: valves heart- 
fhaped, blunt; the inner minute. Seed, de- 
preffed, adhering to the corolla. 
media. B, Spikets egg-fhaped, 7-flowered: calyx fhorter 
than the florets: fheath-fcale blunt, very 
fhort. | 
Common on fides of hills, in paftures, and in 
meadows. This grafs is of no great worth, either 
as a pafture, or for meadows. It is not very 
prolific in ftems, neither are they very high: the 
leaves are but fhort, nor do they hold their ver- 
dure long; and, in fhort, it has very little to re- 
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