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MELICA UNIFLORA. 
Linnxvs. Hooxer anp Arnott. Smiru. Parnett. GREVILLE. 
Wiruertnc. Linpiry. Kocu. Hutt. Retrusan. Assor. 
Srprpore. Curtis. Dickson. Martyn. Rercuenpacu. Basineton. 
Rerzivs. Witipenow. Knapp. Graves. ScHRADER. OEDER. 
PLATE XXV.—B. 
Melica nutans, Hupson. RupBEcK. 
se Lobelit, VILLARS. 
The Wood Melic Grass. 
Melica—Honey. Oniflora—One-flowered. 
A Grass of but little agricultural value, flourishing in clayey 
soil in damp rocky woods. 
A frequent Grass in England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, France, 
and Germany. 
This beautiful species is very ornamental, and when dried is 
well adapted for winter decoration. 
Stem upright, circular, and slender, bearing four or five long, 
flat, thin, acute, flaccid, rough leaves, with rough striated sheaths, 
whose upper portions are furnished sparingly with slender yet 
conspicuous white hairs. Upper sheath shorter than its leaf, 
and having at its apex a short membranous ligule. Inflores- 
cence simple-panicled. Panicle slightly pendulous, with few 
spikelets on long, slender, rough footstalks, the branches long 
and slender, rising usually in pairs from the rachis. Spikelets 
upright, oval in shape, consisting of a perfect and an imperfect 
awnless floret hid within the calyx. Calyx of two reddish brown, 
five-ribbed, smooth glumes. Floret of two pale. Length from 
