canimus. 
122 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
the leaves, fomewhat fwollen, with a fhort 
blunt fheath-fcale. Spike terminating, folitary, 
cylindrical, fomewhat bowed, fmooth, and con- 
taining many florets. Calyx, valves placed out- 
wardly, ftrap-{pearfhaped, acute, fmooth ; one 
valve expanding when the pollen is ripe. 
Flowers folitary, fomewhat fhorter than the ca- 
lyx: valves fkinny on the edges, nearly equal, 
awnlefs. ; . 
ELYMUS. 
Cal. \ateral, 2-valved, feveral together, many- 
flowered. 
FE. Spike upright, compact ; fpikets upright, 
without an involucrum: the lowermoft in 
pairs. 
It grows in woods and hedges. On the 
way-fide and in hedges between Knockmarron- 
hill and Lucan-bridge. In the wood, and in 
hedges at Luttrell’s-town, county of Dublin. 
This grafs grows pretty tall, furnifhing well 
in leaves and ftems, yet not very defirable for 
meadow 
