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CRAMJNE/Ii; 



truncate and torn at the top. — In ditches and by the margins of 

 ponds ; rather scarce, though distributed over the whole island. 

 One of the sweetest of grasses, water-fowl and cattle being fond 

 of it ; but unsuitable for cultivation from the character of its 

 habitat. (Name from the Greek kathbriisis, an eating out, 

 alluding to the torn ends of the glumes.) — Fl. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



IMi^TJCA Nr'-TAKr. (If'^^yff Afi-//i-ri}j;rs.':). 



34. Mki.ici (Melic), — Pi'Diide slender; spikclcis rather larcre 

 and few, ovate, awnless, j 2-tloweredf; glumes nearly equal ; 

 rackilla piroduccd and terminated by a c[ub-shaped rudimentary 

 (lower of empty glumes ; jruil loosely wrapped in the flowering 

 glimie. (Name said to be from the Latin mcl, honey, on account 

 I if the sweetness of the stem.) 



I. M. nwiitdua (Mountain Melic). — A slender, erect plant, t — 2 

 feet high, with delicale, Hat, sparsuly haitv Ictirrs ,■ paincle 2 — 3 

 in long, nearly a simple raceme, i-side^d, with slender, short 



