PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINE^. 45. Zeocriton. 91 



Gramen secalinum palustre et maritimum, JRaii Syn, 392,3. 

 Hordeum miritiinum, With. Bot. Ar. 17?. 

 Hordeum maiimim, Hvds. Ft. Avg. 57. 

 Zeocriton maritimum, Pal.de Beciuvois. 

 Squirrel-tail grass. Marsh rye-grass. 



Grass lands by the sea; annual; June, July. 

 Leaves rather glaucous; lotustw pyramidal, compact j 

 setcB long, stiff, and strongly barbed. 



V. 46. SEC ALE. Pliny. Bye. 



Locusta 1 sessile in each tooth of the rachis, 2 or 

 S-flowered, 2 lower fertile, sessile, opposite, uppermost 

 abortive ; spatheUes subulate, opposite, not notched, siiorter 

 than the glumes; lower spnihellule not notched, ending 

 in a very long bristle; upper 2-cut, toothed; lodicule ob- 

 ovate, not notched, pilose; ovary bearded; styles 2; stigmata 

 feathered; cariopsis husked, furrowed. — Rachis jointed, 

 toothed, spiked; spike simple; locustce crowded, imbricate. 



Secale cereale. Harvest rye. 



Outer spathellule prickly, ciliated, 



Secale, Rait Syn. 388, I ; Ger. em. 68, 

 Secale vulgatius, Park, 1128. 

 Secale cereale, L. S P. 124. 

 Triticum cereale, Salis. Prod. 27. 



Cultivated in fields ; annual ; sown in autumn, for bread 

 either alone, or mixed with wheat to form meslin bread, 

 not drying so soon as wheat bread : and still more for fer- 

 mentation, and the manufacture of rye, malt, or corn- 

 spirit. The straw is split, and plaited into women's hats,&c. 



Root fibrous; culrn above nnked, smooth, erect; leaves 

 erect; sheaths long, smooth; Itguta very short; spike erect; 

 locustce glaucous, smooth. 



|3. compositum. Spike branching. 



7. vernum. Spike small, slender ; plant small, 



Secale vernum seu minus, Raii Syn. 388, 2. 

 Secale aestivum seu minus. Park. 1129. 



Sown in the spring. 



VI. 47. ELYMUS. Micheli. Lymegrass. 



Locustce 2 or more in each tooth of the rachis, 3 to 

 9-flowered; spathelles in pairs nearly equal; lower spa- 

 thellule not notched, bristled ; Iristle sometimes very short ; 

 upper spathellule 2-cut, toothed; lodicule ostxie^ whole. 



