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12. GLYCE’RIA, R. Brown. Manna Grass. 
[Greek, Glykeros, sweet ; in allusion to the sweet taste of the seeds.] 
Spikes several- or many-flowered ; florets ne: early deciduous by the 
ne up of the rachzs into joints, leaving the persistent, ual, 
1-3nerved glumes behind. Palee nearly aaa, naked, pied” char- 
taceous ; the lower one mos y ‘7-ne , usually blunt scarious at 
Stamens 
L 1. @. hati i R. Brown. ais elets linear, = BAe, 7-13-flow- 
appressed on the branches of the long racem w panicle ; 
pice nly 8 scabrous; the lower weeny entire. or a cbanay 3-lobed, 
r longer than the 2-toothed upper 0: 
a. Guycerra. Manna Grass. 
Fr. Manne de Prusse. Germ. Essbarer Schwingel. 
Leaves = pe one abbas g ance tine 6 fon high, e erect or ascending, compressed, Lingo 
face ; sheat nerved, smooth ; ligule very pn ag get 8 membranaceous, acute or some- 
times obtuse. Pani viele slender, a Pe ches es long, us usually partly concealed in the sheath 
of the upper leaf. ostly simple. an inch long, nearly 
Sessile, ) Tacemose on bine branches and appressed. Glumes membranaceous, nerveless. 
Vee e margins folded in, and a green keel at each 
Caryopsis oblo ong, sakes on the uppe r side. 
“wet low apogee margins of shallow pools, &c. Fi. June. Fr. July. 
Obs. This stout semi-aquatic grass is common to both hemispheres. 
The seeds late a sweetish taste, and in a parts of the old seg 
where they are known ids the name wf Manna Seeds—the Bet. 
bag poorer peasantry in eehing soups and gruels. hse ilies: ar 
country people, as yet, are ily ignorant of all such expedi 
and will long a ontinae 20 if = Sate industry enough to cultivate 
more valuable pyaiae . The herbage of this plant is eaten by stock ; 
Lap it is so much confined to wet localities that it is scarcely entitled 
to be en ong the grasses interesting to American farmers. 
13. PO’A, L. Merapow-Grass. 
[An ancient Greek name for herbage or pasture.] 
Spikelets ovate or oblong, he few- or several-flowered. Glumes 
penned shorter than the — ; the lower ones smaller. L 
us, Oecd. Stamens 2 a | Stigmas sim 
free, a 
* Root ernual : branches of the h ty l 
