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KNAPPIA AGEOSTIDEA. 



Smith. Paenell. Hookbe and Aenoit. WiTHEEiNa. Babingtoit. 

 Knapp. Davies. Dbakiit. 



PLATE LXIX. — A. 



Agrosiis minima, Linn^us. Willdenow. Smith. 



" Hudson. Stillingflbbt. 



Chamagrostis minima, Scheadbk. Lindlby. 



" " Boeckhausbn. Koch. Macebight. 



Sfurmia " Hoppb. 



Mibora verna, Bbauvais. Eeichbnbaoh. 



Gramen minimum, Dalechamps. Bauhin. 



The Early Knappia. 



Xnappia—TSameA in honour of an English botanist, Mr. Knapp. 

 Agrostidea — . . . ." ? 



Knappia. A dimimitive sea-side Grass, of which only one species is 

 known, the Knappia agrostidea. JSTamed after Mr. Knapp. 



A DIMINUTIVE sea-side Grass, growing in sandy pastures. 



Of no agricultural use. 



Anglesea and Jerseyj a native also of France and central 

 Europe. 



Stem slender, upright, and having two or three narrow, blunt, 

 smooth, channeled leaves, with smooth compressed sheaths, the 

 upper sheath extending beyond its leaf. Inflorescence racemed, 

 unilateral; rachis smooth. Spikelets briefly stalked, and of two 

 glumes and one floret; glumes equal, obtuse, smooth, and destitute 

 of lateral ribs. Floret of one palea, shorter than the glumes, 



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