TRITICUM JUNCEUM. 
Linnzxus. Hooker anp Arnott, Kocu. WirtHerina. 
Smith. Parnett. Linptry. GRrevitte. WItipEnow. Hott. 
Knapp. Dickson. ScurapEr. Host. Orprer. Hupson. Basrneron. 
ReicHensacw. Kuntrxu. Macreieut. Deakin. 
PLATE LXI1V.—B. 
Agropyrum junceum, Linptey. Beravvats. 
The Rushy Sea Wheat-Grass. 
Triticum—Rubbed. Junceum—A rush. 
Triticum. Linneus.—The Wheat-Grass is represented in Great Britain 
by five species; they have solitary spikelets, and with two nearly equal- 
sixed glumes. The British examples are much more diminutive than the 
annual foreign species, which are cultivated in this country for bread. The 
name is derived from the Latin ¢ritum, and signifies thrashed or beaten, 
in allusion to the manner in which the corn is extracted from the ear. 
Founp on sandy sea-shores, where it is useful in binding 
the loose sand. It has no agricultural merits. 
Common in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Ger- 
many, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, West Asia, and North 
Africa. 
Stem circular, upright, smooth, and having five or six lengthy 
smooth glaucous leaves, with smooth somewhat striated sheaths, 
the upper one shorter than its leaf, and having at its apex a 
brief membranous ligule. Inflorescence spiked, the spikelets 
oval in form, sessile, and in two alternate rows on a zigzag 
smooth rachis. Calyx consisting of two obtuse about equal- 
