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HORDEUM MARITIMUM. 
Wirnerinc. Hooker anp Arnotr. Deakin. Kuntu. Smira. 
Parnett. Kocn. Linpitry. Knapp. 
Martyn. Scuraper. Macreient. Vaty. Host. Povrrer. Hott. 
Renwan. Basineton. ReEIcHENBACH. 
PLATE LXIV.—A. 
Hordeum martiinum, Hupson. Dickson. 
geniculalum, ALLIONI. 
rigidum, Rovu. 
The Sea-side Barley. 
Hordeum—............ ip Maritimum—Sea. 
Growine near the sea, on light dry sandy ground. 
Occurring in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Essex, Kent, 
Suffolk, Norfolk, Gloucester, Glamorgan, York, Durham, and 
Northumberland; and in Argusshire, where rare. Found also 
along the Mediterranean sea, extending to the Baltic. 
An injurious agricultural Grass. 
Stem upright, circular, and polished, (base trailing) bearing 
four or five brief, narrow, rough, hirsute leaves, with smooth, 
striated sheaths, having a brief, membranous ligule at its apex. 
Joints smooth. Inflorescence spiked, uniform, and an inch in 
length. Rachis jointed and dentate. Spikelets in threes on 
either side of the rachis, and of one awned floret. Calyx of 
two equal-sized rough glumes. Floret of two palee, the exterior 
one ending in a lengthy rough awn; inner one half the length. 
