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MELICA NUTANS. 



LINNAEUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. GREVILLE. 

 LlNDLEY. KOCH. WlLLDENOW. CURTIS. MARTYN. KNAPP. 



RELHAN. GRAVES. SCHRADER. BABINGTON. HOST. 

 SCHREBER. LEERS. REICHENBACH. WITHERING. HULL. DICKSON. 



PLATE XXV. A. 



Melica montana, HUDSON. 



Poa nutans, HALLER. 



The Mountain Melic Grass. 

 Melica Honey. Nutans Nodding. 



MELICA, Linnceus. An interesting family, of which there are but two 

 British examples. The name is derived from mel honey. 



A GRASS as yet of no agricultural value, growing in damp shady 

 -Ljk_ woods at an altitude of about five hundred feet above the sea, 

 and not found higher than two thousand feet. It is an early Grass, 

 doing well under cultivation, and therefore may prove of use to the 

 farmer. 



In Scotland it occurs in Aberdeenshire, Forfarshire, Fifeshire, and 

 near Edinburgh. In England, in all the northern counties and Not- 

 tinghamshire, Derbyshire, Worcestershire, Suffolk, and Hertfordshire. 

 In Wales, in Denbigh. Abroad, it is a native of France, Italy, 

 Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Lapland. 



This lovely Grass is very ornamental when growing luxuriantly, and 

 no one can fail being struck with its beauty after seeing it growing, 

 as it does, in a damp wood near Ambleside. The wood seemed as if 

 meant for Fairyland, each raceme of bloom bearing a number of bells, 

 all hanging in one direction. 



Stem upright, slender, roughish, bearing four or five long, narrow, 



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