HORDEUM MARITIMUM. 191 



HORDEUM MARITIMUM. 



WITHERING. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. DEAKIN. KUNTH. SMITH. 



PARNELL. KOCH. LINDLEY. KNAPP. 



MARTYN. SCHRADER. MACREIGHT. VALL. HOST. POURRET. HULL. 

 RELHAN. BABINGTON. REICHENBACH. 



PLATE LXIV. A. 



Hordeum man'num, HUDSON. DICKSON. 



geniculatum, ALLIONI. 



rigidum, ROTH. 



The Sea-side Barley. 

 Hordeum ? Maritimum Sea. 



ROWING near the sea, on light dry sandy ground. 



Occurring in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Essex, Kent, 

 Suffolk, Norfolk, Gloucester, Glamorgan, York, Durham, and North- 

 umberland; and in Argusshire, where rare. Found also along the 

 Mediterranean Sea, extending to the Baltic. 



An injurious agricultural Grass. 



Stem upright, circular, and polished, (base trailing) bearing four or 

 five brief, narrow, rough, hirsute leaves, with smooth, striated sheaths, 

 having a brief, membranous ligule at its apex. Joints smooth. In- 

 florescence spiked, uniform, and an inch in length. Rachis jointed and 

 dentate. Spikelets in threes on either side of the rachis, and of one 

 awned floret. Calyx of two equal-sized rough glumes. Floret of two 

 paleee, the exterior one ending in a lengthy rough awn; inner one half 

 the length. Floret imperfect. Length from three to nine inches. Root 

 annual and fibrous. 



Flowers in the middle of June. 



The specimen illustrated was gathered near Bristol, by Mr. Joseph 

 Sidebotham, of Manchester. 



