TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 121 
ROTBOLLIA. 
Cal. of 1 or 2 valves, egg-fpearfhaped, flat: 
frets alternate on a zigzag fpike-ftalk. 
R. Spike cylindrical, awl-fhaped, curved: ca- 
lyx, hufk awlfhaped, lying clofe to the 
fpike-ftalk, divided into two. 
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It grows in wet paftures, and places along 
the fea fhore. In old quarries at the fand 
banks between Baldoyle and Howth. In wet 
marfhes below Irifhtown, county of Dublin. In 
a falt marth a little below Cork, and on the 
fouth ifles of Arran. Mr. J. T. Mackay’s Ca- 
talogue of rare Plants. It is a grafs of little 
or no value to the farmer. A. Aug. 
tal alah ANSE. 
Durfhér fairge. 
EncuisH.—Sea Hard-grafs. | 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, decumbent 
at the bafe, branched, very fmooth, leafy. 
Leaves fpreading, linear, acute, flat, rough 
above and on the edges. Sheath fhorter than 
R the 
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