GRAMINE7R. 



1013 



outer glumes brown or purple, with 

 scarious edges, the flowering ones scarce- 

 ly protruding beyond them ; the inner 

 imperfect glume much shorter, broadly 

 wedge-shaped. 



In woods, and shady rocky places, in 

 hilly districts, extending all over Europe 

 and Russian Asia, from the mountains 

 of the south to the Arctic Zone. In 

 Britain, chiefly in Scotland and the north 

 of Er gland, not recorded from Ireland. 

 JTl. early summer. 



Fig. 1234. 



2. Wood Melick. Melica unifLora, Linn. (Eig. 1235.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1058.) 



An elegant perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 more slender even than the mountain M., 

 with longer and narrower leaves. Leaf- 

 sheath quite closed opposite to the blade, 

 as in the Sedge family, and produced 

 into a small green point. Panicle some- 

 times reduced to an almost simple ra- 

 ceme with only 3 or 4 spikelets, some- 

 times with a few long, slender, distant 

 branches, each bearing several spikelets. 

 Each spikeletnear 3 lines long, coloured 

 as in the mountain M., but erect and 

 containing but one flower ; the imper- 

 fect inner glume oblong, stalked, and 

 reaching to the height of the flowering 

 one. 



In woods and shady places, in central 

 and southern Europe, extending east- 

 ward to the Caucasus and northward 

 into Scandinavia. Frequent in England 

 and Ireland, much less so and quite par- 

 tially distributed in Scotland. Fl. early summer, 



Fig. 1235. 



