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SESLERIA C^RULEA. 



SCOPOLI. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. PARNELL. 



KOCH. SMITH. REICHENBACH. WITHERING. LINDLEY. KNAPP. HOST. 

 SCHRADER. OEDER. ARDUINO. HULL. 



PLATE XXX. A. 



Cynosurus ccenileus, LINNJEUS. WILLDENOW. HUDSON. 



MARTYN. EHRHART. DICKSON. 

 " " JACQUIN. WULFEN. 



Tlie Blue Moor- Grass. 

 Sesleria Named after the Italian botanist Sesler. Ccerulea Blue. 



SESLERIA, Linnceus. The genus Sesleria is named after another botanist, 

 Leonard Sesler, an Italian Physician. Panicle spiked. There is only one 

 British representative, the Sesleria ccerulea, which is confined to the north. 



A MOST beautiful Grass, yet of no agricultural merits. 

 Found in the counties of Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, 

 and Yorkshire, growing on the high hills. More abundant on the 

 Scotch mountains, especially on Ben Lomond, (three thousand feet 

 above the sea.) In Ireland it has been found, although rare, in the 

 county of Sligo. Its favourite habitats are limestone rocks. 



Native of France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Iceland. 



Stem upright, circular, smooth, slender, pale green, carrying three 

 very brief leaves, with smooth sheaths, the upper one eight times the 

 length of its leaf, and having a short membranous ligule. Joints hid. 

 Boot leaves linear, narrow, lengthy, and eleven-ribbed. Margins 

 minutely dentate. Inflorescence racemed. Raceme purplish blue, oval, 

 and about half an inch in length. Spikelets laid one over the other 

 all round the rachis. Calyx of two broad, acute, membranous, equal- 

 sized glumes, destitute of lateral ribs. Florets of two equal-sized paleee, 



