74 HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 



SECALE. Rye. Calyx 2-valved, 2-flowered, solitary; corolla 



2-valved, 2-flowered, exterior valve acuminate, keel ciliated, 



ending in a long awn ; interior valve flat, lanceolate ; seed 



naked, half cylindrical, pointed at one end. 



cereale, ann. rye, Moris. Hist. v. 3, 58, t. 2, f. 1. Supposed a 



native of Crete or Siberia. 

 villosum, ann. hairy, nat. South of Europe and Levant. Host. ii. 



t. 48. Triticum villosum, R. S. L. S. Veg. i. p. 768. 

 orientate, ann. oriental, nat. of the Archipelago. Willd. p. 171. 

 Creticum, ann. Cretan, nat. of Candia, or Crete. Willd. i. p. 472. 



SECT. VIII. Grasses ivith 3 Stamina, 2 Styles, 2 Flowers in 

 each Calyx Flowers of different sexes. 



HIEROCHLOE. Holy-grass.* Generic character '.florets 3, cen- 

 tral one perfect, with 2 stamens, lateral ones barren with 3 ; 

 corolla permanently membranous ; seed loose ; styles distinct. 

 Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 40. 



fragrans, per. fragrant holy-grass, nat. N. Amer. R. F. W. 

 Holcus odoratus, Mich. Hierochloa fragrans, R. S. Linn. 

 Sys. Veg. ii. p. 512. Holcus fragrans, Willd. et Pursh. 

 See Holcus fragrans. 



borealis, per. Northern holy-grass, indig. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 110. 



Holcus odoratus, Hort. Gram. Wob. Fol. 47. See Holcus 



odoratus, R. S. Linn. Sys. Veg. i. p. 513. Hierochloa 



borealis. 



alpinus, per. alpine holy-grass, nat. Greenland. R. F. B. R. S. 



Linn. Sys. Veg. ii. 515. Hierochloa alpina. 

 redolens, per. redolent or balmy holy-grass, nat. New Zealand. 

 Brown. Vahl. Sy. ii. 102. R. S. Linn. Sys. Veg. ii. p. 514. 

 Hierochloa redolens. 



Australis, per. Southern holy-grass. Fl. Germ. i. p. 253. Avena 

 odorata, Decand. Fl. Fr. n. 1565. var. a. See R. S. Linn. 

 Sys. Veg. ii. p. 514. 



HOLCUS. Soft-grass. Generic character : calyx 2-valved, 

 2-flowered, seldom 3, awnless, corolla 2-valved, exterior 

 valve awned, interior valve awnless, least, unisexual or barren 



* Hierochloe borealis is said to be used at high festivals, for strewing the churches 

 in Prussia ; as Accrus calamus has, time out of mind, been employed in the cathe- 

 dral and streets of Norwich, on the Mayor's Day. Sm. EiigL Fl. vol. i. p. ill . 



