420 98. OR AMINES. 



ceolate glabrous with downy margins (P). — E. B. 849. P. 70. — 

 St. ascending, a foot long.— Not a native. A. VIII.] E. 



1. D. humifusa (Pars.) ; 1. and sheaths glabrous, fl. ovate 

 downy with glabrous veius.— J?. B. S. 2613. P. 71.— St. mostly 

 procumbent, 4—8 in. long. Spikes usually 8 or 4, springing 

 from nearly the same point. Spikelets in pairs, one on a longer 

 stalk than the other.— Sandy fields, rare. A. VII. VIII. E. 



2. Eceinoch'loa Pal. de Beawv. 



[E. Crus-gaVli (Beauv.) ; spikes alternate or opposite, spike- 

 lets near together, upper gl. and sterile floret awned or mucro- 

 nate hispid, raohis hispid.— £. B. 876. P. 67. Panicum L.— 

 Near London. A. VII.] E. 



3. Seia'eia Pal. de. Beauv. 



1. <S. wViAs (Beauv.) ; pan. spikelike, involucral bristles with 

 forward teeth, lower pale smooth. — Panicum L., E. B. 875. 

 P. 68.— London and Norwich. A. VII. Vni. E. 



\_S. verticilldta (Beauv.) ; pan. spikelike, involucral bristles 

 with declining teeth, lower pale smooth. — E. B. 874. P. 69. 

 —London and Norwich. A. VIL VIII.] E. 



\_S. glaAca (Beauv.) ; pan. spikeMke, invol. bristles with as- 

 cending teeth, pales transversely rugos^. — Weybridge, Surr. 



Tribe II. Chloridece. 

 4. CrN'oDOB- Rich. 



1. C. Daa'tylon (Pers.) ; spikes 3 — 5 digitate, pales smooth 

 their edges and keel slightly ciliate, 1. downy beneath, barren 

 shoots prostrate.—^. B. 850. P. 72. — Creeping. Flowering st. 

 4 — 6 in. high, ending in a cluster of spreading many-fl. slender 

 spikes. Spikelets purplish. L. on the long branched barren 

 shoots flat, spreading; on the others usually folded. — Sandy 

 shores. Dorset. Devon. Cornwall. P. VIII. E. 



5. Spaeti'na Schreb. 



1. 8. stric'ta (Roth) ; 1. jointed to their sheaths falling short 

 of the spikes, spikes S — 3, raehis scarcely extending beyond the 

 last spikelet, outer gl. hairy.— .E. B. 380.— St. 1—2 feet high. 



