SPARTINA STRICTA. 
Suitn. Parnetn. Hooker any Arnott. Kuntu. Kocn. Linp.ey. 
Baspineton. Deraxin. Macreicur. 
PLATE LXIX.——B. 
Dacetylis stricta, Linnzvus. Smirn. Kwnapp. 
‘ = Wirnerine. Soranpers. WILLDENow. 
Af cynosuroides, Hupson. Logr.ine. 
The Twin-Spiked Cord Grass. 
Spartina—Named from its resemblance to Lygeum spartum. 
Stricta—Close. 
Spartina. LErect-growing; spike compound. There are two British 
examples; name derived from the Greek. 
AN interesting, although useless, erect-growing Grass; found 
on muddy salt marshes, on the east and south-east coasts of 
England. 
A native of England, France, and Italy. 
Stem striated, smooth, and sheathed to the apex, bearing 
numerous involute, rigid, pointed, smooth leaves, with smooth 
striated sheaths, the upper one extending beyond its leaf. 
Ligule brief, blunt, and ragged. Inflorescence of two or three 
spikes. Spikelets alternate, laterally compressed, and consisting 
of two glumes and one floret; glumes very unequal, hirsute, 
destitute of lateral ribs; inner glume largest. Floret of two 
unequal pale, exterior one shortest, hirsute and destitute of 
lateral ribs. Inner palea having two delicate ribs. Stamens 
