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MELICA UNIFLORA. 



LiNNJETJS. HOOKBE AND AeNOXT. SmITH. PaENEIL. GrEBTILLE. 

 WlTHEEIUa. LiNDLET. KoCH. HuLL. ReLHAN. AbBOT. 



SiBTHOEP. Curtis. Dickson. Maetyn. Eeichenbach. Babington. 

 Ketzius. Willdenow. Knapp. G-eavbs. Scheadee. Oedee. 



PLATE XXV. B. 



Melica nutans, Hudson. Rudbeck. 



" Lohelii, Villaes. 



The Wood Melic Grass. 



Melica — Honey. TJniflora — One-flowered. 



A Grass of but little agricultural value, flourishing in clayey 

 soil in damp rocky woods. 



A frequent Grass in England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, France, 

 and Germany. 



This beautiful species is very ornamental, and when dried is 

 well adapted for winter decoration. 



Stem upright, circular, and slender, bearing four or five long, 

 flat, thin, acute, flaccid, rough leaves, with rough striated sheaths, 

 whose upper portions are furnished sparingly with slender yet 

 conspicuous white hairs. Upper sheath shorter than its leaf, 

 and having at its apex a short membranous ligule. Inflores- 

 cence simple-panicled. Panicle slightly pendulous, with few 

 spikelets on long, slender, rough footstalks, the branches long 

 and slender, rising usually in pairs from the rachis. Spikelets 

 upright, oval in shape, consisting of a perfect and an imperfect 

 awnless floret hid within the calyx. Calyx of two reddish brown, 

 five-ribbed, smooth glumes. Floret of two palese. Length from 



