132 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
(Cavtneato abaé. 
TrisH. < 
U Cruithneachd abhach. 
Encuish.——Dwarf Wheat-grafi. Sea Wheat. 
Dwarf Sea Wheat-grafs. 
Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, nearly up- 
right, branched, rigid, fomewhat compreffed, 
leafy, from 3 to 5 inches. Leaves linear-lance- 
fhaped, fomewhat acute, ronghifh on the back. 
Sheath fomewhat bellying, fomewhat ftriated, 
{mooth, with a fhort blunt gnawed-like fheath- 
fcale. Spike upright, ftiff, 2-rowed, pointing 
one way: /pikets alternate, lance-fhaped, moftly 
folitary: the under ones often in two’s, three’s, 
and fometimes in four’s. Calyx, valves equal, 
blunt, keeled: florets many,. tiled, 2-rowed, 
fmooth, bluntifh, awnlefs, and as large as the 
glumes of the calyx. It is not unlike the Poa 
rigida, but may be diftinguifhed by its fpikets 
prefling clofe to the fpike-ftalks, } 
POLYGAMIA 
