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FLOWERS OF THE SEA-COAST 



useful in binding the sand together and preventing erosion. It is from 

 this group, formerly included in Triticum, that the wheats are derived. 



RUSHY WHEAT GRASS (Agropyron junceum, Beauv.) 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



343. Agropyron junceum, Beauv. Root creeping, stem glabrous, 

 prostrate, leaves involute, ribbed, hairy, rachis tender, awnless glumes 

 ribbed, outer palea blunt. 



Squirrel Tail Grass (Hordeum maritimum, Huds.) 

 (See illustration on p. 217) 



The distribution of this universal maritime grass is from Denmark 

 southwards, in Europe, and in N. Africa. In Great Britain it is found 

 throughout the Peninsula province, in the Channel province, not in 

 Wilts, only in Essex, and W. Kent in the Thames province, E. Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Cambridge, W. Gloucs, Glamorgan, Carnarvon, N. Lines, 

 S.E. Yorks, N.E. Yorks, Durham, southwards to Kent, and is absent 

 in Wales elsewhere, and in the Channel Islands. 



Squirrel Tail Grass is another of those maritime species which 



