PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 57. Melica. Ill 



1. Melica uniflora. One-Jiowered melick. 

 Panicle branchy, spreading, 1 -sided ; locuslce ovate, 



erect, long footstalked; hermaphrodite flower %\x\^q\ culm 

 very smooth. 



Gramen miliaceum q. Gramen avenaceum nemorense, glumis rarioribus 

 ex fusco xerampelinis, Raii St/n. 403, 6. 

 Melica nutans, Huch. Fl. Ang. 37. 

 Melica uniilora, Retz, Obs. Bot. I, 10. 

 Melica Lobelii, ViU. Delph. 2, 90. 

 Wood melick-grass. 



Woods and hedges ; perennial; May and June. 



Culms 12 in. high, filiform, slender, very smooth, leafy, 

 ascending; leaves flat, thin, light green; sheaths short; 

 ligiila very short, truncated ; panicle irregular ; glumes 

 purple. 



2. Melica nutans. Drooping melick. 

 PawicZff scarcely branched, contracted, 1 -rowed; locust ce 



ovate, pendulous; hermaphrodite flowers 2; culm rough 

 above. 



Gramen miliaceum q. Gramen avenaceum locustis rubiis montanum, 

 RaiiSyn. 403,7. 



Gramen locustis rubris. Park. 1151. 

 Melica nutans, Lin. S. P. 98. 

 Melica montana, Huds, Fl. Ang. 37. 

 /\ira nutans, Willd. Prod. 143. 

 Mountain melic-grass. 



Mountainous woods; perennial; June, July. 



Root creeping; culm erect; leaves erect, short; ligula 

 very short, torn? panicles racemose, few-flawered; glumes 

 scariose, white, edge purple. 



XVII. 58. TRIODIA. R. Brown. Three-cut. 



Spathelles alternate, 3 to 5-flowered, boatshaped, longer 

 than the flowrets ; glumelles 2-cut5 toothed ; lower spathel- 

 lule toothed, with a mucro between the teeth ; mucro thick, 

 toothshape ; Iodide lanceolate, not notched, smooth ; ovary 

 beaked; beaks 2-cut, diverging; style 2-parted; stigmata 

 aspergilliform ; panicle not branched^ few-flowered. 



Triodia decumlens. Downlyifig three-cut. 



Panicle contracted; locustce oblong, ovate, 3 or 4-flowered; 

 leaves flat, pubescent. 



