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Spartina.'] Gvii. gramine^. 575 



raceme^ 1 flowered, awnless. Glumes % opposite, truncate, 

 nearly equal, rather longer than the floret, membranous, 1* 

 nerved. Outer glumella hairy, membranaceous, jagged ; inner 

 narrower, sometimes wanting. Styles distinct. Stigmas filiform. 

 —Named in honour of Mr. Knapp^ an English botanist, author 

 of a work on British grasses. 



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1. K. agrostldea^Sm. (early K). E. B. t. 1127: Parn. Gr, 

 t, 73. .Agrostis minima L. 



^^^ I Sandy pastures by the sea, rare. Essex, near the mouth of the 



gM I Thames. Wales, and S. W. coast of Anglesea, frequent. Jersey. 0. 



V 3, 4. — A beautiful and minute grass, of which only a solitary 



species is known. Root fibrous. Stems several from the same root. 



Leaves short, linear, rough, equalling in length their white inflated 

 I sheaths. Glumes 2, dorsally compressed, truncated, purplish. Glu- 



) I mellas sometimes 2, white, delicate, very hairy, jagged, the outer 



soli- I ^"^ much the largest and embracing the inner, which last is often 



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Spikelets (with one perfect fiower) arranged only on one side 

 of the partial rachis and forming a racemose or digitate com" 

 pound spihe or raceme. (Tab. IX» f.42. g-,) (Gen. 42 — 44.) 



Spike compound. Partial spikes erect, racemose. Spikelets 

 sessile, awnless, arranged alternately in two rows on one side of 

 the partial rachis^ laterally compi^essed, with one fertile and 

 scarcely any rudiments of a neuter floret. Glumes 2, very un- 

 equal, lanceolate, compressed. Glumellas 2, compressed, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. Styles united half-way up. Stigmas elon- 

 gated.— Ligules very short. — Name derived from its similarity 

 ■^ I to the LygeuTYi Spartum^ or Bastard mat-weed^ and that from 



airaprov^ sometimes applied to a broom,^ sometimes to other plants, 

 of which the bark, branches, and leaves are tough and made 

 into cords, ropes, &c., called still in France, spartes. Esparto 

 is a name given at the present day to Stipa tenacissima by the 

 Spaniards. 



1. S. stricta Sm. (twin-spiked C); partial spikes 2 — 3, larger 

 glume and outer glumella 1-nerved hairy, rachis scarcely pro- 

 duced beyond the terminal spikelet of each partial spike, leaves 

 shorter than the spikes tapering at the base articulated upon 

 the sheath lower ones deciduous. Paim. Gr. t. 74. Dactylis 

 stricta E. B. t. 380. 



Muddy salt-marshes, on the east and south-east coasts of England. 

 ^. 8. — A remarkably stiff rigid plant. Stems 6 — 8 inches, or a 

 foot and more high. Culms concealed by the sheathing bases of the 

 short pungent involute leaves. Inner glumella longer than the larger 

 glume, which is a third longer than the smaller one» 



