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racemed secund,spikeiets drooping ovate two- flowered. Lighlf. 

 n. 96 (M. nutantis var.}. E. B. t. 1059. 



HAD. Lord Breadalbane's woods, Armaddy, in Nether-Lorn, Lightf. 

 On banks in Angus-shire, I). Don. Rosslyn woods, plentiful, 

 Mr. Arnott and Mr. Greuillc. Fl. May, June. I/ . 



One foot or more high, leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Cal. glumes 

 ovate, convex, nerved, deep purple brown, margin pale. Valves 

 of the cor. cartilaginous, unequal, nerved, outer one large. Be- 

 tween the two perfect flowers the rudiments of a third, peduncu- 

 lated, consisting of a 2-valved hardened cor. without either pistil or 

 stamen. 



2, M. wiiflora (IVood Mellc- grass), panicle branched slightly 

 drooping, spikelets erect ovate with only one perfect floret. 

 Lighlf. p. 96 (M. milans). E. B. t. 1058. 



HAB. Shady wood, not uncommon, Lighlf. Hamilton, Blan tyre and 



Bothwell woods, Glasgow, Hopk. Rosslyn woods, plentiful, Mr. 



Gremlle. Ardvorlich and Castle Campbell, Mr. Arnott. Fl. June, 



July. I/. 

 Imperfect flower upon rather a long footstalk. Leaves broader than 



the last, and whole plant rather larger. 



3. M. cceniLea (purple Melic-grass), panicle erect subcoaretate, 

 spikelets erect oblongo-cylindrical. Lightf. p. 96. E. B. 

 t. 750. 



HAB. Wet heathy places and moors, abundant. FL Aug. If. . 



Habit very different from the last, and has hence been made a genus, 

 Enodium of Gaud,, and Monllia of the Baron de Beauvois. Culms 

 1 2 feet., or more, high. All the leaves, which are long and li- 

 near, acuminated, springing from the base, or from the single joint 

 immediately above it. Panicle from 2 8 inches in length, purple, 

 rarely, and probably only when growing in much sheltered situa- 

 tions, green. Cal. valves lanceolate, nearly equal. Florets gene- 

 rally 1 2 perfect and 1 sterile, much exceeding the cal. Anthers 

 large, purple. When there is but 1 flower in a cal., this is longer 

 than when there are two. Specimens in this state, with the whole 

 panicle pale green, slenderer, and the leaves somewhat exceeding 

 the panicle in. height, yet differing in noo the rrespect, are iheM.al- 

 pina of D. Don's MSS. inedit. Brooms are made of their culms 

 in some parts of England. (With.} In Skye the fishermen make 

 excellent ropes for their nets of this grass. Lightf. This circum- 

 stance in quoted by Withering as of the M. mi tans. 



19. SESLERIA. 



1. S. ccerulea (blue Moor-grass), panicle spiked ovate bracteated, 

 spikelets 2 3-flowered, ext. valve of the Cor. apislate and 

 toothed. Lightf. p. 100 (Cynosurus ca>r.). E. B. t. 1613. 



HAB. Highland mountains, common. Plentiful on Ben Lomond. FL. 

 April June. If. . 



Probably the very earliest flowering of the mountain grasses and an 

 exceedingly beautiful one. Much "tufted ; 6 12 inches high. Leaves., 



