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HORDEUM MARITIMUM. 



"WiTHEEING. HOOKEE AND AeSOTT. DeAKIN. KuNTH. SmITH. 



Paenell. Koch. Lindlet. Knapp. 



Maetyn. Scheadee. Maceeight. Vall. Host. Pouerbt. Hull. 



Eelhan. Babington. Eeichbnbach. 



PLATE LXIV. A. 



Hordeum marimum, Hudson. Dickson. 



geniculatum, Allioni. 



rigidum, Eoth. 



The Sea-side Barley. 



Hordeum — ? Maritimam — Sea. 



Growing near the sea, on light dry sandy ground. 



Occurring in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex, Essex, Kent, 

 SuflFolk, Norfolk,' Gloucester, Glamorgan, York, Durham, and 

 Northumberland; and in Argusshire, where rare. Found also 

 along the Mediterranean sea, extending to the Baltic. 



An injurious agricultural Grass. 



Stem upright, circular, and polished, (base trailing) bearing 

 four' or five brief, narrow, rough, hirsute leaves, with smooth, 

 striated sheaths, having a brief, membranous ligule at its apex. 

 Joints smooth. Inflorescence spiked, uniform, and an inch in 

 length. Eachis jointed and dentate. Spikelets in threes on 

 either side of the rachis, and of one awned floret. Calyx of 

 two equal-sized rough glumes. Floret of two paleae, the exterior 

 one ending in a lengthy rough awn; inner one half the length. 



