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MELICA NUTANS. 



Linn^us. Hooker and Abnott. Smith. Pabnell. G-eeville. 



Lindley. Koch. Willdenow. Ctjbtis. 



Maetyn. Knapp. Relhan. Geaves. Scheadee. Babington. Host. 



Scheebee. Leees. Eeichenbach. Withering. Hull. Dickson. 



PLATE XXV.- 



—A. 





Melica montana, 





Hudson 



Poa nutans, 





Hallek. 



The Mountain Melic Grass. 



Melica — Honey. Nutans — Nodding. 



Melica, Linnceus. — An interesting family, of which there are but two 

 British examples. The name is derived from mel — honey. 



A Grass as yet of no agricultural value, growing in damp 

 shady woods at an altitude of about five hundred feet above 

 the sea, and not found higher than two thousand feet. It is 

 an early Grass, doing well under cultivation, and therefore may 

 prove of use to the farmer. 



In Scotland it occurs in Aberdeenshire, Forfarshire, Fifeshire, 

 and near Edinburgh. In England, in all the northern counties 

 and Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Worcestershire, Suffolk, and 

 Hertfordshire. In Wales, in Denbigh. Abroad, it is a native 

 of France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and 

 Lapland. 



This lovely Grass is very ornamental when growing luxuri- 

 antly, and no one can fail being struck with its beauty after 

 seeing it growing, as it does, in a damp wood near Ambleside. 



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