VIl] FLORAL CHARACTERS 111 



I Tall aquatic grass with long, lax, narrow 

 panicle and spikelets, somewhat nodding, 

 and with 8 — 20 flowers in each. 



Glyceria fluitans, Br. 



The only similar grass is Glyceria aquatica, Sm. which differs in 

 its more reed-like habit, open panicle, and fewer flowers. 



J I Small land-plants not more than a foot 

 high, with short, stiff, somewhat crowded 

 panicles, and spikelets containing 6 — 8 

 flowers. 



= Maritime perennial with creeping stolons, 

 and about a foot high : panicle somewhat 

 open below. 



Poa maritima, Huds. 



= = Inland plant with secund panicle, abotit 

 six inches high. 



P rigida, L. 



The rare P. procumbens, Curt, and P. bulbosa, L. also come 

 here, as well as starved forms of P. compressa, L. Some forms of 

 Pestuca elatior, var. pratensis, Huds. growing in dry situations may 

 give trouble, and will have to be examined with the flora. See also 

 note, p. 109. 



tt Spikelets awned. 



© Awns bristle-like and terminal on the palece: 

 flowers about six in each spikelet. Leaves 

 setaceous. Panicle secund. 



= Awns long and bristle-like. An annual 

 weed. 



Festuca Myurus, L. 



= = A^ims very short, or merely the drawn out 

 points of the palece. Perennial. 



F. ovina. 



The rare F. uniglumis, Soland., and some other varieties may 

 also come here. 



