436 98. GEAMINBiE. 



long. Pan. very long, often nearly simple ; branches without 

 callosities, ascending, lowermost usually in pairs. Spiiielets 

 adpressed. Lower pales rather the shorter, with a triangular 

 central point. Anthers about 5 times as long as broad, purple, 

 pale yeUow when empty. — 13. G. pedicellata (Towns.); pan.- 

 branohes simple roughish, spikelets of 13 blunt flowers. L. 

 more acute. Lowermost pan.-branches about in threes. Anth. 

 about 4 times as long as broad, yellow when young. A. N. H. 

 ser. 2, V. 105. Curt. Fl. Zand. i. 18.— Watery places. P. VI. 

 — IX. Flote-grass. E. S. I. 



3. (?. ^fe'cote (Fries) ; pan. compound, branches compound 

 nearly smooth erect with flowers divaricate with fruit, spikelets 

 linear of 7 — 20 oval-oblong rather acute fl., lower pale twice as 

 long as broad, sheaths compressed. — S. vii. 79. O.fluitans Sm., 

 E. B. 1520. P. 45. — St. ascending, rooting below. Sheaths 

 rough, furrowed. L. glaucous, bluntish, plicate when young. 

 Ligule shorter. Pan. much branched ; branches with callosi- 

 ties at the base, lowermost about in fives. Lower pales with 3 

 teeth at the end. Anth. about 3 times as long as broad, cream- 

 coloui'ed, fuscous when empty. — Stagnant water and wet places. 



P. VI.— vin. E. s. ? 1, 



2iT. Scleeooh'loa Pal. de Beauv? 



* Olum.es with 3 veins. 



t Panicle unilateral. 



1. S. marit'ima (Lindl.) ; pan. branched, lowermost branches 

 in pairs or single, branches ultimately erect, spikelets linear ad- 

 pressed 4 — 8-flowered, raohis terete, lower pale blunt apiculate, 

 midrib reaching the tip, stoloniferous. — Glyceria Sm., JE. B. 1140.^ 

 P. 42. — Boot fibrous, with ascending prostrate or rarely root- 

 ing leafy stoles. L. involute ; the central ridge on their upper 

 surface strongly marked the others faint. Anth. about 6 times 

 as long as broad. Lower pale with involute edges. Ligule 

 bluntish. — ^. hispida (Parn.) ; st. compressed, raohis furrowed 

 on one side and as well as the pan.-branches rough. P. 90. — 

 Sea-coast, in damp places. P. Vl. VII. E, S. I. 



2. S. Bor'reri (Bab.) ; pan. branched, branches ultimately 

 erect-patent lowermost generally in fours, spikelets linear 4 — 7- 

 fl., raohis terete, fower paZe iwVA a rigid apiculus formed by the 

 tip of the dorsal vein, ceespitose. Glyceria, Bab., E. B. 8. 2797 

 (1837). P. 98. G. conferta Fries (1839).— St. 6—12 in. high. 



^ See Crepin, Notes Fl. Belg. v. 155 — 214. 



