GRASS KA.MILV 



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slender, erect branches ; Fpikclcts few, erect, lanceolate, i — 3- 

 flowered, awnless ; gliaiies acute, equal. — Wet heaths ; common. 

 Growing in tussocks in company with Sc'abiosa succisa. The 

 stems are sold in bundles by tobacconists for cleaning pipes. 

 (Named in honour of G. J. Molina, a Chilian botanist.) — Fl. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



CATAFKOPA AQ'l-ATIC\ (TT'afrr iil^t^H-^.-LSS). 



^3. C.A-TABROSA ( ^Vhorl-grass \ of whiclii (T. aqudtica (Water 

 \\"horl-grass) is the only species, is a soft, smooth, pale green 

 plant, creeping or floating below, sometirpes mucli branched. 

 J — 2 feet high ; Itcves short, flat, blunt, with inflated sheaths and 

 blunt liijules : panich- i — 4 in. long, pyramidal, with slender, 

 spreading, whorled branches ; spikdets 1 — 3-flowered : empty 

 "liniies \'ery unequal, and both these and the fiou'cring-glunie 



