284 



The Flora of Wiltshire. 



close; from stringo, to bind. Engl. Bot. t. 290. Tarn. Gr. t. 2. 



Locality. Moors and heaths, especially where moisture collects 

 during the winter. T. 14. July. Area, 1, * 3, 4, * 



South Division. 



1. South-east District. " Neighbourhood of Salisbury , Mr. James 

 Eussey. 



3. South-west District. Heaths about Longleat, 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Spye Park in plenty. u Birch Marsh, 

 Langley."" Mr. William Sole. A grass of simple structure, and 

 rather local in the county, growing in short tufts, so coarse and 

 rigid that cattle will not eat it. Culms and leaves setaceous. Spike 

 long, erect, slender, grooved and toothed at short distances, for the 

 insertion of the florets. Glumellas lanceolate ; outer one coriaceous, 

 purplish-green, tapering gradually into an awn ; inner smaller awn- 

 less, membranous. Its value in nature seems chiefly that attaching 

 to a vegetable pioneer, as it quickly disappears under the efforts of 

 cultivation, and is rarely an occupant of any other but the poorest 

 soil. 



Milium, (Linn.) Millet-geass. 

 Linn. CI. iii., Ord. ii. 

 Named either from mille, a thousand, on account of its fertility ; 

 or according to Theis, from the Celtic mil, a stone, from the hard- 

 ness of its fruit. 



1. M. effusum, (Linn.) loose-spiked or common Millet. JEngl. 

 Bot. t. 1106. Tarn. Gr. t. 17. 



Locality. Damp shady woods. T. M. June. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 

 Frequent throughout the Districts, and one of the most elegant of 

 our taller grasses. Stems from 3 to 4 feet in height. Leaves half 

 an inch or more in breadth. Inflorescence spreading widely : branches 

 of the panicle very smooth and slender, in distant alternate tufts, 

 which are so arranged as to appear almost verticillate, horizontal 

 when in flower, but eventually deflexed. The- plants multiply by 

 the root as well as by seed, sending out horizontal shoots of con- 

 siderable length in some habitats, which root at the joints as they 

 extend. 



