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Fig. 126. Nardus stricta L. WIRE BENT.— a, The toothed axis of a spike; 

 b, one of the spikelets; c.the same expanded in flower. 



126. NARDUS Linn. Sp. PI. l : 53. 1753. Spikelets 1-flowered, hermaphro- 

 dite. Empty glume 1, very small, and grown to the rachis, often indistinct; 

 flowering glume acute or short-awned, the involute margins inclosing the 

 2-nerved palea. Stamens 3. Style simple, elongated; stigma barbellate, with 

 short papilla?. A low, densely cespitose perennial with rather rigid setaceous 

 basal leaves and a slender long-pedunculate spike-like unilateral inflorescence. 



Species 1, Northern and Middle Europe, temperate Asia, Greenland and New- 

 foundland. 



