002 GRAMiNE^. [Glyceria. 



upwards alonp; its external side. Anthers pale yellow or puriilish. Styles distant, 

 shortish, in my specimens not very much branched or feathery. 



XXIII. Glyceeia, R. Br. Floating Meadow-grass. 



" Glumes shorter than the lowest flower," " unequal submem- 

 branous. Outei' pale with 5 — 7 strong prominent distinct ribs, 

 and a scarious margin, subcylindrical, unarmed." " Styles very- 

 short," "terminal." — Bah. Man. 



1. G. fluitans, Scop. Floating Meadoiv- grass. "Panicle 

 secund slightly branched very long, branches nearly simple 

 roughish, spilielets linear of 7 — 12 flowers adpressed, flowers 

 lanceolato-oblong acute, outer pale nearly thrice as long as broad, 

 sheaths compressed." — Bah. Man. p. 392. Br. Fl. p. 534. E. 

 B. t. 1520. 



In ponds, ditches, slow streams and low wet meadows; frequent. Fl. June — 



September. 2^. 



2. G. plicata, Fries. Plaited Floating Meadoiv-grass. " Pa- 

 nicle compound, branches compound nearly smooth erect when 

 in flower divaricate with fruit, spikelets linear of 7 — 20 flowers, 

 flowers oval oblong blunt, outer pale twice as long as broad, 

 sheaths compvessed."^J5a&. Man. p. 392. P. fluitans B., Br. Fl. 

 p. 534. 



In like places with the last; rare? Ft. "June — Sept." — Bab. 

 [Near the sluice at Brading, sparingly, A. G. More, Esq., Edrs.] 

 With the characters and appearance of this newly discovered species (from G. 

 fluitans) of Fries I am as yet practically unacquainted, but, from the descriptions 

 <if the assigned distinctions, the diversity of opinion respecting its claims, and, 

 above all, from the remarks in the sixth edition of the ' British Flora,' I should 

 fear G. plicata was one of those species which so abound in the pages of systema- 

 tic botanists, but are ignored in the volume of Nature's own inditing. 



XXIV. Beiza, Linn. Quaking-grass. 



" Panicle lax. Spikelets much compressed, ovate or deltoid, 

 with 3 — 8 closely imbricated florets. Glumes 2, nearly equal, 

 broad, much shorter than the spikelet. Glumellas 2, awnless ; 

 outer cymbiform, obtuse, at length coriaceous and rounded on the 

 back below, with a scarious margin ; inner small and flat. Cary- 

 opsls adnate with the glumellas." — Br. Fl. 



1. B. media, L. Common Quaking-grass. Quakers. Vect. 

 Rattle-grass. Maiden's -hair. Totter-grass. Spikelets broadly 

 ovato-triangular, glumes shorter than the lowermost florets, culms 

 leafless in their upper part and like the branches of the difiuse 

 distant-flowered panicle nearly smooth, anthers exserted, ligule 

 short abrupt, root perennial. Sm. E. Fl. i. p. 133. Br. Fl. p. 

 541. E. B. V. t. 340. Host. Gram. Aust. ii. 22, t. 29. Parn. 

 Gr. t. 30. 



In dry barren fields or heathy pastures, and in meadows; very common. Fl. 

 June. 2^. 

 Root perennial, tufted with copious slender, branched, downy fibres, and some- 



