90 HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 



ciliated, permanent ; germen emarginate ; seed free, two- 

 pointed ; panicle compound, but little scattered. R. S. Linn. 

 Sys. Veg. 



ERAGROSTIS poacoides, per. See Poa eragrostis. 

 polymorpha, per. various. Poa polymorpha. Willd., nat. 



India. 



pilosa, ann. pilose. See Poapilosa. 

 verticillata, ami. verticillate. 



tenella, ann. slender, nat. India. Poa tenella, Willd. 

 ferruginea, ann. iron-coloured, nat. Japan. 

 cynosuroides, ann. dog's-tail-like, nat.. Egypt. 

 cyperoides, ann. cyperus-like, nat. C. G. Hope. 

 mucronata, ann. mucronate, nat. E. Indies. 

 interrupta, ,ann. interrupted-spiked, nat. N. Holland. Poa in- 

 terrupta, Brown. Prodr. i. 180. 



BRIZA. Quaking-grass. Generic character : calyx 2-valved, 

 many-flowered ; flowers collected into heart-shaped spikets ; 

 corolla 2-valved, exterior valve the shape and size of the calyx 

 husks, inferior valve smaller, flat, roundish \ seed com- 

 pressed. 



elatior,per. tall, nat. Greece. Smith, Fl. Gr. i. p. 57, n. 179. 

 media, per. common quaking-grass, indig. May and June. E. 



Bot. 340. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 133. Hort. Gram. Fo. 97. 

 geniculata, per. knee-jointed, nat. C. G. Hope. Thunb. Fl. 



Cap. i. p. 148. 

 minor, ann. small quaking-grass, nat. Brit. June. E. Bot. 



1316. Sm. Engl. Fl. i. p. 132. 

 maxima, ann. great quaking-grass, nat. Italy. August. Willd. 



Host. ii. t. 30. 



humilis, ann. dwarf, nat. Iberia. Linn. Sys. Veg. i. p. 522. 

 virens, ami. green, nat. Spain. August. Linn. Spec. 103. 

 spicata, arm. spiked. 

 Monspessulana, Montpellier, nat. France. July. Allion. Pe- 



dem. n. 2220. 

 rubra, ann. red, nat. India. JB. maxima, var. Decand. Fl. Fr. iii. 



n. 1625. - Hort. Gram. Wob. 



SPARTINA. Cord-grass. Generic character : calyx 2-valved, 

 (3-valved R. S. L. Sys.), 1 -flowered, unequal, keeled, very 

 acute ; corolla 2-valved, husks awnless ; bifid emarginate, and 

 toothed shorter than the calyx; nectary rather truncated, 

 fringed ; styles long, combined, separate above, stigma woolly ; 



