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Island), growing there in company with A. arundinacea, which 
it greatly resembles. Culms 4-5 ft. Panicle 8-10 inches long, 
and lobed (not fusiform), with a purple tinge; glumes narrower 
than in the other species, and very acute ; hairs at the base of the 
flowering glume half its length. Perennial, flowering in August. 
ffordeum murinum, var. arenarium, growing in loose sand, has 
the stems branching and rooting below. 
Catabrosa aquatica, var. littoralis or minor, occurring on wet 
sand by the sea, is a dwarf form, 1-2 inches high, with 1-flowered 
spikelets. 
Growing in sandy pastures and dry 
waste places by the sea :— 
Phleum arenartum, the Seaside Cats- 
tail, is not unfrequent on the English 
coast, scarcer in Ireland and Scotland. 
Culms 2-6 inches high, tufted. Leaves 
not more than an inch long, rather 
broad. Panicle dense, shortly cylindric 
or somewhat club-shaped, being nar- 
rowed towards the base, 4-1 inch long. 
Spikelets + inch long, containing one 
flower and a -pedicel-like rudiment ; 
empty glumes tapering into a mucro, 
the flowering one very small and 
awnless. Annual, flowering May, June. 
Glyceria distans,the Reflexed Sweet- 
grass (fig. 27), seems to prefer dry, 
sandy ground, but may also be found 
on the margins of brackish rivers and 
marshes ; it is frequent all round our 
coasts, rarely occurring inland. Root- 
stock without stolons. Leaves flat. 
Culms 1-13 ft. Panicle spreading on 
all sides, the branches 4-5 at te 
insertion, horizontal in flower and de- Ate s 
flexed in fruit. Spikelets about + inch pen eee ee 
long, 5- or 6-flowered; flowering enlarged figures, below to left, a 
glumes blunt and scarious at the tip, SBic'*hi 4° peiketineed” ne 
not mucronate, faintly nerved. Per- above, the empty glumes. : 
ennial, flowering July, August. 
Glycerta loliacea, the Dwarf Sweet-grass, is rather sparsely dis- 
tributed around the English and Irish coasts, and is rare in Scot- 
land. Culms rigid, stout, 3-4 inches long, growing in small tufts. 
Leaves short and slender. Inflorescence like a miniature spike of 
Lolium, the spikelets being almost sessile on the rachis, and, except 
the lower ones, solitary, all facing one way. Spikelets Linch long, 
green, rarely tinged with purple, about 9-flowered ; glumes closely 
imbricate, blunt and scarious at the tip, and minutely mucronate, 
the flowering one strongly 3-nerved. Annual, flowering latter 
part of June, 
