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SPARTINA STRICTA. 



Smith. Parnell. Hooker and Arnott. Kc/nth. Kocir. Lindlet. 

 Babtngton. Deakin. Macreight. 



plate lxix. — b. 



Dactylis stricta, Linnaeus. Smith. Knapp. 



WITHERING. SOLANDERS. WlLLDENOW. 



" cynosuroides, Hudson. Loefling. 



The Twin-Spiked Cord Grass. 



Spartina — Named from its resemblance to Lygeum sparfum. 

 Stricta — Close. 



Spartina. Erect-growing; spike compound. There are two British 

 examples; name derived from the Greek. 



An interesting, although useless, erect-growing Grass; found 

 on muddy salt marshes, on the east and south-east coasts of 

 England. 



A native of England, France, and Italy. 



Stem striated, smooth, and sheathed to the apex, bearing 

 numerous involute, rigid, pointed, smooth leaves, with smooth 

 striated sheaths, the upper one extending beyond its leaf. 

 Ligule brief, blunt, and ragged. Inflorescence of two or three 

 spikes. Spikelets alternate, laterally compressed, and consisting 

 of two glumes and one floret; glumes very unequal, hirsute, 

 destitute of lateral ribs; inner glume largest. Floret of two 

 unequal palere, exterior one shortest, hirsute, and destitute of 

 lateral ribs. Inner palea having two delicate ribs. Stamens 



