63? POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 



The flowers grow in upright panicles, the glumes 

 ♦ >'v ' white, tinged with red. The flowers are fmooth ; 

 the male has a Ihort infle<5ted beard. 

 This grafs is efl:eenD'd a good fodder for cattle. 

 ■ ' ' In the ifle of Skye it is fometimes ufed to make 



ropes for the fifhing-boats, but is not fo good 

 for that purpofc as the Melica caruka, Lin. 



-■■'■■ y^GILOPS. G^;;. /)/. 1150. 



'" ■ ■ ' HERMAPHROD. Cal gluma fubtriflora, cartlla- 



ginea. Cor. gluma terminata 

 ■ ' triplici ariflia. St am. 3. %'/. 



'"■ ■'' ■ 2, Sem. I. ' 



] ■ 



MASC. Cal. & Cor. Gluma, ut in priore. Stam. 3. 

 incurmtah iEGILOPS fpica fubulata mutica Isevi incurva, 

 calycibus unifloris. Sp. pi 1490. {Moris, hiji, 

 ■■' ■ 182./ 8. /. 2./. 8. Barrel, ic. 5, 6.) 

 Sea Hard-grafs. Incurved ^gilops. Anglis, 



It grows upon the fea-fliores, but not common. 

 We faw fome fpecimens gathered upon the coafls 

 •'^ .. , oi Scotland^ we were told ^i Ardbigiand^ in the 

 ./',* county of G^IW^j. O. VII VIII. 



This grafs is commonly about five inches high. 



Many rt dining bunched ftalks arife from one 



root. Ihe flower; grow in linear, rigiu, jn- 



_ ^ curved, joinred Ipikes, but little larger than the 



ftalks themfd'CS. At each joint of the fpike is 



.. placed a fingk flower, the calyx of which conlifts 



. of two equal acuminated glumes. The petals, 



or 



