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Spartina. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 633 
Perennial, pte or creeping, neta tall and coarse; leaves rigid; spikelets 
in an interrupte r continuous spike or raceme, erect or oblique; rhachis more 
or less produced Sir the dpbaret wpikale elet. 
Species about 7-8, mostly maritime on the coasts of the Atlantic. 
1. 8. stricta Sa Catal. Bot. iii. 9); glabrous; rhizome 
creeping, stoloniferous ; culms 3-2 ft. long, very salen sheathed 
-7 lin. long, imbrieate, those of the same si in. distant, 
pubescent ; lower glume very narrow, linear, 43—61 lin, long, finely 
1-2-nerved, the upper lanceolate, asp 6-7 lin. long, 3-5-nerved, 
nerves very elose; valve subac or obtuse, 5-53 lin. long, tips 
hyaline ; pale 51-6 . long; anthers ong; grain u 
ong. Kunth, Enum. i. 278; Suppl. 232; Reichb. Ic. Fl 
erm. 1. t. 25, fig. 1401; Steud. Syn, Pl. Glum. i. 215; Engl. Bot. 
ll apres Sowerby, Brit. Grass. t. 140; d & Schinz, 
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nép. fr 858. S. capensis, Nees, Fi. Afr. Austr. io 
eae . Sclins, 1. c.857. Dactylis stricta, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 
Engl. B 380. Limuetis pungens, Rich. in Pers. Syn. i. 
Host, hia pron iv. t. 66. 
Coast Reeion: Port Elizabeth Div. ; along the strand of Algoa Bay, near 
Cape Recife and Port Elizabeth, Ecklon § Zeyher, 662! in salt marshes at the 
Ai ae. the Zwartkops River, "Drege : ! MacOuwan y Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr. 
Pe ntic coast of Europe from Hoiland een ag England to the Strait of 
ieee and in the Bay of Friaul in the Adri 
LVI. CYNODON, Pers. 
Spikelets ppsbisite small, laterally compressed, sessile, imbricate, 
alternately 2-ser and unilateral on a slender keeled rhachis ; 
“newt “isastionigt ie above the glumes, produced, or not, beyond 
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membranous, 3-nerved, awnless, koa ciliate. Pale somewhat shorter 
than the valve, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, minute, obovate-cuneate 
glabrous. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous ; ; styles distinct, slightly 
shorter than the pliiitinad styles. Grain oblong, subterete ; embryo 
— the length of the grain; hilum gees 2 the length of the 
‘ Perennial ; stems creeping, wi at the nodes and emitting a them 
ascicles of barren shoots and flow ring culms; spikes 2-6 in terminal umbels, 
Species 2; 1 in extra-tropical cate Africa, the other almost ici il 
