MELIGA UNIFLORA. 83 



MELICA UNIFLORA. 



LINN.EUS. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. SMITH. PARNELL. GREVILLE. 



WITHERING. LINDLEY. KOCH. HULL. RELHAN. ABBOT. 



SIBTHORP. CURTIS. DICKSON. MARTYN. REICHENBACH. BABINGTON. 



RETZIUS. WILLDENOW. KNAPP. GRAVES. SCHRADER. OEDER. 



PLATE XXV. B. 



Melica nutans, HUDSON. RUDBECK. 



" Lobelii, VILLARS. 



The Wood Melic Grass. 

 Melica Honey. Uniflora One-flowered. 



A GRASS of but little agricultural value, flourishing in clayey soil 

 -jL in damp rocky woods. 



A frequent Grass in England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, France, and 

 Germany. 



This beautiful species is very ornamental, and when dried is well 

 adapted for winter decoration. 



Stem upright, circular, and slender, bearing four or five long, flat, 

 thin, acute, flaccid, rough leaves, with rough striated sheaths, whose 

 upper portions are furnished sparingly with slender yet conspicuous 

 white hairs. Upper sheath shorter than its leaf, and having at its 

 apex a short membranous ligule. Inflorescence simple-panicled. Panicle 

 slightly pendulous, with few spikelets on long, slender, rough footstalks, 

 the branches long and slender, rising usually in pairs from the rachis. 

 Spikelets upright, oval in shape, consisting of a perfect and an imper- 

 fect awnless floret hid within the calyx. Calyx of two reddish brown 

 five-ribbed, smooth glumes. Florets of two palese. Length from 

 twelve to eighteen inches. Eoot perennial and creeping. 



Flowers in the middle of June, and becomes ripe at the end of 

 July. 



