Pt.end.ph. 10. GRAMINEZE. 52. Scleroch. 101 



C. Bromete. Rachis panicled; loci/sfa solitary, 1, 2, or 

 many-flowered ; glumes keeled ; gImneUes of the same con - 

 sistence as the glumes ; lower spatlielhiie concave or cari- 

 nate, awned or awnless; upper 2-keeled ; siyles 2. 



XL 52. SCLEROCHLOA. Beauvois. Spray grass. 



Spathelles parallel, unequal, 3 to 5-flowered, obtuse, 

 shorter than the flowrets ; lower sputhtllvle cordately 

 nicked, obtuse; vpper not nicked; lodicule nicked? ovary 

 beaked ; stigmata feathered ; cariopsis free, furrowed ? 

 beaked, beak 2-cut; rachis panicled or spiked; lucustcB 

 2-rowed, sessile, hermaphrodite.^ 



Sclerochloa prociimhens. Procumhent spray-grass. 



Panicle lanceolate, contracted, unilateral, roni^h ; rachis 



round; locustcB 3, 4, or 5-Q.uweYed;Jiowrets bluntly ribDed. 



Poa procumbens, Curtis Land. 11. 

 Port riipestris, JVitli. 146, 126. 

 Scleiorliloa procumbens, Pal. de Beauvois. 



Inundated sea-rocks and ruins ; annual ; July, August. 



Root fibrous, tufted; culm prostrate, mostly 6 in. long; 

 leaves glaiicous, very long sheathed, broad, acute, flat, 

 acutely ribbed, rather rough ; ligula torn ; panicle stiff; 

 lociLSta lanceolate, glaucous ; spathelles obtuse, very unequal, 

 keeled, outer 5-ribbed ; spatkellules linear, 5-ribbed, apex 

 membranaceous, torn, inner ciliated. 



XII. 53. MEGASTACHYA. Beauvois. Fervgrass. 



Spathelles alternate, 5 to 20-fiowered ; shorter than the 

 flowrets ; lower spat he Hut e nick^, raucronate between the 

 teeth ; upper 2-cut, toothed ; sligmata villose ; cariopsis 

 free, not furrowed ; panicle compound ; locvsta long, pedi- 

 celled ; flowrets 2-rowed, imbricate, hermaphrodite, 



Megastachya rigida. Stiff ferngrass. 



Panicle 2-ranked, 1-rowed, contracted, stiff, smooth ; 

 locusta linear, acute, 5 to 11-flowered; rachis margined; 

 spatliellules free, obsoletely S-ribbed ; root fibrous. 



Gramen pratense q. Gramen exille duriusculum in tnuris et aridis pro- 

 veniens, Raii Syn. 410,8. 



Gramen minus duriusculum, Ger. em. 4. 

 Gramen pani' ula multiplica. Park. 1157. 

 Poa rigida, Lin. S. P. 101. 

 Megastachya < igida, Pal. de Beauv, T4. 

 Small hard grass. 



