96 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



Melic-Grafs. Anglis. 



In (hady woods not uncommon : it*s variety with 

 flowers nearly fefTile, growing in a fpike inftead 

 of a panicle. I oblerv'd in Lord Breadalbane's 

 woods at Ardmaddy^ in Nether-Lorn, The ca- 

 lyces of both are of an auburn color, and the 

 flowers within them green. % . VI-VIII. 



c^rulea 2. M. panicula coar(5lata, floribus cylindricis. Lin. 

 Maniifs.p. 325. Aira ccerulea Sp, pi. 95. (Oed. 

 Dan, t. 239. Moris, Hift, Ox,f, 8, t, 5. /. 22.) 



Purple Melic-Grafs. Anglis, Pund-Glafs. Gaulis, 



In wet, moorifli, and barren ground frequent. %. 

 VIII. 



This grafs is readily difl:inguifhed by it's black pur*, 

 pie panicle : it has a bulbofe root, blue antherjE, 

 and a purple piftil, with two or three flowers in 

 a calyx. 



The fifhermert in the ifle of Skie make ropes for 

 their nets of this grafs, which they find by ex- 

 perience will bear the water well without rotting. 



P O A. Gen, pi. 83. 

 CaL bivalvis, mukiflorus. 'Spictda ovata; valvulis 

 margine fcabiofis acutiufculis. 

 nlpina I. POA panicula diffufa ramofifTima, fpiculis fexfloris 

 cordatis. Sp. pi, 99. {ejus, varitas vivipara 

 Scheuch. Iter Alp. p, 38. /. 4. /. 2. ^ Agr olo- 

 graph, p. 22. /. 4./. 14.) 

 Alpine Meadow-Grafs. Anglis, 

 On the fides of Craig-challeach, above Finlarig, in 

 Breadalbane. Mr. Stuart, ^. VI, 



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