vu] FLORAL CHARACTERS ie 
t Tall aquatic grass with long, lax, narrow 
panicle and spikelets, somewhat nodding, 
and with 8—20 flowers im each. 
Glyceria fluitans, Br. 
The only similar grass is Glyceria aquatica, Sm. which differs in 
its more reed-like habit, open panicle, and fewer flowers. 
ti Small land-plants not more than a foot 
high, with short, stiff, somewhat crowded 
panicles, and spikelets containing 6—8 
flowers. 
= Maritime perennial with creeping stolons, 
and about a foot high: panicle somewhat 
open below. 
Poa maritima, Huds. 
li 
Ii 
Inland plant with secund panicle, about 
six inches high. 
Perigo, la: 
The rare P. procumbens, Curt. and P. bulbosa, L. also come 
here, as well as starved forms of P. compressa, L. Some forms of 
Festuca elatior, var. pratensis, Huds. growing in dry situations may 
give trouble, and will have to be examined with the flora. See also 
note, p. 109. 
t+ Spikelets awned. 
© Awns bristle-like and terminal on the palee: 
Jlowers about six in each spikelet. Leaves 
setaceous. Panicle secund. 
= Awns long and bristle-like. An annual 
weed. 
Festuca Myurus, L. 
== Awns very short, or merely the drawn out 
points of the pale. Perennial. 
F. ovina. 
The rare FP, uniglumis, Soland., and some other varieties may 
also come here. 
