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the palese. Abundant in the Mediterranean region. Occasionally 

 found in moist waste places in the south of Britain. 



Hierochloe borealis, Sm. Holy-grass. 



A creeping perennial grass with flat leaves. In Britain has only 

 been met with in Caithness and Forfarshire, and is a very doubtful 

 native species. 



Lagurus ovatus, L. Hare's-tail. An erect annual, 6 inches to a 

 foot high. Sheaths inflated. Sheaths and blades softly downy. 

 Panicle dense, ovoid, about an inch long. Spikelets crowded, one- 

 flowered. Empty glumes equal, taper-pointed, hairy. Outer palea 

 terminating in two long bristle-like points and bearing a very long, 

 fine, dorsal awn. Occasionally found on our coasts (Suffolk). 



Leersia oryzoides, Sw. 



Flowering culms about two feet high; panicle loose; spikelets one- 

 flowered and compressed. Occurs in wet places in Hampshire, Sussex, 

 and Surrey. 



Lepturus incurvatus, Trin. 



A decumbent annual, about six inches high and bent at the nodes. 

 Inflorescence a curved spike, from two to four inches long. Spikelets 

 one-flowered, in two alternate rows, and very closely inserted in a kind 

 of notch against the rachis. When ripe the latter breaks up at each 

 joint. Generally scattered around the sea-coasts of Britain. 



Mibora verna, Adans. 



A tufted annual, seldom more than three inches high. Inflorescence 

 a raceme, unilateral, and about half an inch long. Spikelets sub- 

 sessile, one-flowered. Outer palea very hairy and shorter than the 

 empty glumes. Found in Anglesea and the Channel Islands. 



Panicum, L. General characters of the genus : 



Spikelets in either loose or spike-like panicles, one to two-flowered. 

 Three empty glumes present, the first (or lowermost) usually smaller 

 than the others. The third or uppermost glume often encloses a male 

 flower. The palese are indurated, awnless or very shortly awned. 



Panicum Crus-galli, L., see Echinochloa, p. 188. 



Panicum glabrum, Gaud. Glabrous Finger-grass. 



An annual, from six inches to a foot high. Sheaths glabrous. 

 Spike-like branches of the panicle from two to four in number. The 

 two uppermost empty glumes equal in size. An introduced weed in 

 the south of England. 



Panicum sanguinale, L. Hairy Finger-grass. An annual, from one 

 to two feet high, with more or less hairy sheaths. The inflorescence 



