VIl] FLORAL CHARACTERS 111 



:|: Tall aquatic grass with long, lax, narroio 

 panicle and spikelets, somewhat nodding, 

 and ivith 8 — 20 flowers in each. 



Olyceria fluitans, Br. 



The only similar grass is Olyceria aquatica, Sm. which dififers in 

 its more reed-like habit, open panicle, and fewer flowers. 



XX Small land-plants not more than a foot 

 high, with short, stiff, someiohat crowded 

 panicles, and spikdets containing 6 — 8 

 floxoers. 



== MaHtime perennial \oith creeping stolons, 

 and about afoot high: panicle somewhat 

 open below. 



Poa rnaritima, Huds. 



E3 = Inland plant ivith secund panicle, about 

 six inches high. 



P. rigida, L. 



The rare P. procumbens. Curt, and P. bidbosa, L. also come 

 here, as well as starved forms of P. compressa, L. Some forms of 

 Festiica 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. 



ft Spikelets awned. 



Aivns bristle-like and terminal on the paleoe: 

 flowers albout sijn in each spikelet. Leaves 

 setaceous. Panicle secund. 



= Awns long and bristle-like. An annual 

 weed. 



Festuca Myurus, L. 



= = Axons very short, or merely the drawn out 

 points of the palece. Perennial. 



F. ovina. 



The rare F. uniglumis, Soland., and some other varieties may 

 also come here. 



