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pubescent ; fl. glumes linear-lanceolate, scaberulous, mucronate. DISTRIB. 

 N. and S. temp, regions. 



33. MO LIN 'I A, Schrank. 



A tall rigid wiry perennial grass. Spikelets subterete, in a slender 

 panicle, 1-5-fld., upper fl. imperfect. Empty glumes 2, much shorter 

 than the flowering, equal, convex, 1 -nerved. Fl. glumes longer, distant, 

 conical, acute, awnless, cartilaginous, nerves 3, very strong. Palea 

 2-nerved, obtuse. Scales membranous, 1-toothed. Stamens 3. Ovary 

 glabrous ; styles short, stigmas feathery. Fruit- sub-4-gonous, furrowed, 

 2-beaked with the persistent style-bases, inclosed in the cartilaginous fl. 

 glume. DISTRIB. 1ST. temp, regions. ETYM. G. J. Molina, a writer 

 on Chilian botany, &c. 



M. cseru'lea, Mcench ; leaves flat, stem why. Eno'dium,, Gaud. 



"Wet moors, &c., N. to Shetland ; ascends to 3,000 ft. in the Highlands ; 

 Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. July- Aug. Stems 1-4 ft., terete, striate, 

 node solitary, near the base, naked above. Leaves smooth, rigid, hairy at 

 the base, tips very slender; sheaths smooth; ligule 0. Panicle 1-12 in., 

 usually stout, very contracted ; rachis flexuous, compressed ; branches erect. 

 Spikelets few, in., narrow, reddish or violet-purple or green; empty glumes 

 subacute ; fl. glumes deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, subacute ; anthers violet- 

 brown. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), N. and W. Asia, N. Africa. 



M. caru'lea proper ; spikelets blue-purple 2-3-fld., fl. glumes 3-nerved. YAR. 

 M. depaupera'ta, Lindl. ; spikelets green 1-fld., fl. glumes 3-5-nerved. 



34. CATABRO'SA, Beauv. 



A perennial soft grass. Spikelets minute, subterete, obconic, in branched 

 effuse panicles, 1- or 3-4-fld. ; rachilla jointed between the fl. glumes, 

 glabrous. Em.pty glumes 2, much shorter than the flowering, unequal, 

 scarious, convex, awnless ; upper truncate, crenulate. Fl. glumes coria- 

 ceous, cuneate, terete, 5-nerved, torn at the membranous tip, back smooth, 

 awnless ; lower 1 -nerved sessile ; upper 3-nerved pedicelled, often floweiiess 

 or male. Palea as long. Scales ovate-oblong. Stamens 3. Ovary ovoid, 

 glabrous ; stigmas subsessile, feathery. Fruit compressed, not or obscurely 

 furrowed, enclosed in the fl. glume. DISTRIB. Temp, and cold regions. 

 ETYM. Karappffxris, from the erose top of the glumes. 



C. aquat'ica, Beauv. ; panicle pyramidal. 



Watery places, N. to Shetland, common ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May- 

 June. Terrestrial or aquatic, soft, bright green, flaccid. Rootstock stout, 

 branched, creeping and rooting. Stems 6-12 in., bent below, then erect, 

 compressed, smooth, striate, leafy, sometimes much branched. Leaves 

 flat, -J in. broad, linear, obtuse, upper short ; sheaths inflated, smooth ; 

 ligule ovate, obbuse. Panicle 1-4 in., rachis stout, grooved ; branches 

 whorled, divided, slender. Spikelets ^ in., subsolitary, pedicelled, green 

 and purplish ; empty glumes, green, tips very broad, nerves very obscure ; 



