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and tips broadly scarious ; fl. glumes greenish, strongly keeled, purple below 

 the scarious tip, glabrous. DJSTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. Asia. 

 2. M . uniflor'a, lictz; spikelets very few erect panicled on long capillary 

 peduncles 2-fld. , upper flower male. 



Woods, from Elgin southwards ; ascending above 1,500 ft. in N. of England ; 

 common in Ireland ; fl. May-July. Habit, foliage, spikelets, and colouring 

 of M. mttcms, but inflorescence very different ; ligule long, from the auri- 

 cles of the sheath ; rachis of panicle capillary ; lower branches 2-nate, 

 1-1 2 in. ; spikelets on capillary scaberulous peduncles. DISTRIB. Europe. 



26. DAC'TYLIS, L. COCK'S-FOOT GKASS. 



Spikelets laterally compressed, secund, sessile, densely imbricate at the 

 end of the branches of a one-sided panicle, 3-mauy-fld. Empty glumes 

 2, shorter than the lowest flowering, membranous, unequal ; upper larger, 

 3-nerved. Fl. glumes cartilaginous, keeled, 5-nerved ; awn subterminal, 

 short, scabrid. Palea 2-fid, nerves ciliate. Scales 2, acutely toothed. 

 Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous ; styles terminal, stigmas feathery. Fruit 

 loosely enveloped in the glume. DISTRIB. Cold and temp, regions ; 

 species 6. ETYM. SaKrv\ls, a, finger's breadth ; of obscure application. 



1. D. glomera'ta, L. ; rough, leaves broad flat. 



Pastures, waste places, &c. ; ascending to 1,600 ft. in the N. of England ; fl. 

 June-July. Perennial. Stems 2-3 ft., creeping below, erect, stout, smooth. 

 Leaves long, flat, keeled, compressed ; sheaths scabrid ; ligule long. Panicle 

 strict, 1-6" in., graen and violet ; lower branches few, long, strict, scabrid, 

 horizontal in flower, erect in fruit. Spikelet<s \ in., oblong, 4-fld., scabrid. 

 DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. Africa, Siberia, N. India; introd. in N. 

 America. 



27. KOELE RIA, Pers. 



Spikelets oblong, compressed, in a contracted spikelike panicle, 2-4-fld. 

 Empty glumes 2, rather shorter than the flowering, unequal, compressed, 

 keeled, membranous ; upper 3-nerved. Fl. glumes rather close, mem- 

 branous, acuminate, obscurely keeled, 5-nerved at the base, lowest sessile. 

 Palea 2-fid. Scales 2, oblique. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous ; styles ter- 

 minal, stout, stigmas feathery. Fruit plano-convex, free. DISTRIB. Temp, 

 regions ; species 8. ETYM. 6. L. Koeler, a German writer on grasses. 



1. K. crista'ta, Pers. ; panicle silvery interrupted below. 

 Banks, pastures ; ascending to 1,800 ft. in Yorkshire ; fl. June-July. Per- 

 ennial, pubescent or silky, pale green. Root fibrous, stoloniferous. Stems 

 1-3 ft., slender. Leaves narrow, glabrous beneath, soon involute; sheaths 

 striate ; ligule 0. Panicle 1-4 in., linear-oblong or lanceolate ; branches 

 2-3-nate, very short. Spikelets ^ in., shining, pale green; empty glumes 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, broadly hyaline ; keel minutely scaberulous ; 

 axis pubescent ; fl. glumes linear-lanceolate, scaberulous, mucronate. DIS- 

 TRIB. Europa, N. Asia Africa and America, Himalaya, temp. S. America, 

 Australia, New Zealand. 



28. MOLIN IA, Schrank. 



Spikelets subterete, in a slender panicle, 1-5-fld., upper fl. imperfect. 

 Empty glumes 2, much shorter than the flowering, equal, convex, 1 -nerved. 

 Fl. glumes pedicelled, conical, acute, awnless, cartilaginous, with 3 very 



