KNAPPIA AGROSTIDEA. 211 



KNAPPIA AGROSTIDEA. 



SMITH. PARNELL. HOOKER AND ARNOTT. WITHERING. BABINGTON. 



PLATE LXIX. A. 



Agrostis minima, LINN^US. WILLDENOW. SMITH. 



HUDSON. STILLINGFLEET. 

 Chamagrostis minima, SCHRADER. LINDLEY. 



BORCKHAUSEN. KOCH. MACREIGHT. 



Sturmia minima, HOPPE. 



Mibora verna, BEAUVOIS. REICHENBACH. 



Gramen minimum, DALECHAMPS. BAUHIN. 



The Early Knappia. 



Knappia Named in honour of an English botanist, Mr. Knapp. 

 Agrostidea ? 



KNAPPIA. A diminutive sea-side Grass, of which only one species is 

 known, the Knappia agrostidea. Named after Mr. Knapp. 



A DIMINUTIVE sea-side Grass, growing in sandy pastures. 

 -/TJL Of no -agricultural use. 



Anglesea and Jersey; a native also of France and central Europe. 



Stem slender, upright, and having two or three narrow, blunt, smooth, 

 channeled leaves, with smooth compressed sheaths, the upper sheath 

 extending beyond its leaf. Inflorescence racemed, unilateral; rachis 

 smooth. Spikelets briefly stalked, and of two glumes and one floret; 

 glumes equal, obtuse, smooth, and destitute of lateral ribs. Floret of 

 one palea, shorter than the glumes, blunt, hirsute, and white; apex 

 ragged. Styles two, brief. Stigmas slender, lengthy, and plumose, 

 Stamens three. Length from two to four inches. Root annual and 

 fibrous. 



