110 55. Briza. 10. GRAMINEiE. Pl.end.pL 



Phalaris pratensis altera, Ger. c»2. 87. 

 Briza maxima, Lin. S. P. 103. 

 Briza grandis, Salisb. Prod, 21. 

 Pearl-grass or Garden- shaker. Garden-qualcer. 



Dunghills ; perennial ; June. A doubtful native. 

 Cz//772 2 feet high, naked above; /eawe^ soft, lax ; locustcB 

 4 to 8j nearly an inch long. 



XV. B6. MONILIA. Moench. Singlejoint. 



Spathelles alternate, 2 or S-flowered, shorter than the 

 flowrets ; glumelles avvnless, lanceolate, acute ; lodmde rather 

 truncated ; style 2-parted ; stigmata aspergilliform ; cariopsis 

 bimucronate with the persisting vestiges of the styles, 

 slightly furrowed, furrov/s broad; panicle compound; locustce 

 roundish ; culm with only one joint at the base. 



Monilia ccendea. Blue singlejoint. 



Panicle long, contracted, equal; locustce erect, oblong, 



cylindrical. 



Gramen miliaceum q. Gramen pratense serotinum, panicula iQnga pur- 

 puresceus. Rati Syn. 404, 8. 



Gramen pratense spica lavendulse, Merret Pinax. 



Aira cserulea, Lin. S. P. 95. 



Melica ccerulea, Lin, Mant. 2, 325. 



Monilia caerulea, Moench in Keel. Gram. 145. 



Fcatuca caerulea, De Candolle Fl. Fr, 1578. 



En odium caeruleum, Persoon in Gaud, ytgrost. Helv. 145. 



Monilia varia, Schrank. 



Monilia variabilis, PFeb, fVerth, 115. 



Purple melic grass, Knotless grass. 



Boggy barren meadows and pastures; peren.; June, July. 



Hoot tufted ; culm erect, 2 feet long, base thickened into 

 a bulb, naked above ; leaves stiff; ligiila densely hairy ; pa- 

 nicle erect; locustce violet, smooth. 



The culms are made into a neat sort of broom, 



^. syluatica. Panicle pale ; culm 2 to 3 feet high. 

 y. multrflora. Locusta 5 to 6-flowered. 



XVI. 57. MELICA. Dodonseus. Melick. 



Spathelles alternate, imequal, membranous, almost the 

 length of the flowrets, 3 to 5-flowered ; upper flower incom- 

 plete, abortive, pedicelled; glumelles awnless; Iodide trun- 

 cated, fringed; 5/?/ /e short, 2-parted ; 5^?"gmo/a villose; ca- 

 riopsis free, not furrowed ; panicle few-flowered, compound 

 or simple; culm angular. 



