500 
98. UEAMISE^. 
very xhort. — R. i. 90. P. mdetica (Haenke). — Rhizomatous, not 
creeping. St. 2-edged, 2 — 3 feet high. Sheaths, edges, and 
midribs of 1. rough. L. hooded and apiculate. — In deep shade 
in several places near Kelso ; Bimam, Perthsh. [Berts, warw. 
Ayrsh. etc.] P. E. S. 
*** Creeping h;/ long sobdes. 
12. F. praten'sis (L.) : pan. difFose, splkelets ovate of 3 or 4 
webbed fl., loicer pale u-ith 5 prominent veins but only 3 hairy, 
upper sheath much longer than its leaf, fi(/ule prominent blunt. 
—E. B. 1073. P. 31— 34.— Verj- variable in size. St. and 
sheath-s nearly always smooth. Fl. strongly webbed. — 3. P. suh- 
rceruleo CSm.) ; spikelets broader, 1. broad and short, upper 1. 
compressed rounded at the end behind. E. B. 1004. — 7. angnsti- 
foUa (Gaud.) : spikelets small, 1. slender long, lower 1. involute. 
[Var. strigoca fGand.) has a contracted pan. and narrow involute somewhat 
giancous 1.] — Common. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
13. P. comp/re&sa (L.) ; pan. erect or slightly unilateral 
spreading when in flower otherwise close, spikelets ovate or 
oblong-ovate of 5 — 7 blunt slightly webbed fl., lower jxile 3- 
^ ei'ned, veins Jiainj, upper sheath about as long as its leaf, upper- 
most knot at ahout the middle of the stem, li(/ule sliort truncate. 
~E. B. 365. P. 37 k 90.— .S>. decumbent at the base, then 
erect, very much compressed, 1 — \\ ft. high. — ^. P. polynoda 
(Parn.) : fl. free, pales with 2 faint interim, veins, uppermost 
knot higher, ligule rather more prominent, [k suocampTeito. 
(Pani.y is intermediate bf-tw. this and ihe type, having webbed fl. and S-veined 
pales.]— P. 91— 92.— Dry situations. P. VII. E. S. I. 
36. Glyce'eia R. Br. 
1. G. aquat'ica (Wahlb.) : pan. erect much branched spread- 
ing, branches rough, spikelets oblong of 5 — 10 fl., lower pale 
blunt, 1. smooth with terete sheaths. — E. B. 1315. P. 44. G. 
sptctabilis M. it K. — Creeping. St. 3 — 6 ft. high, smooth 
slightly compressed. Sheaths very long. L. long, rough 
on the edges and keel, never floating. Ligule short. Pan. 
large : branches angular, slender, branched. — Watery places. 
P. VII. E. S. I. 
2. G.Jluitans (Pi. Br.) : ^xtTi. secund slightly branched very 
long, branches nearly simple roughish, spikelets linear of 7 — 12 
adpressed lanceolate-oblong acute fl., loicer pale nearly thrice as 
long as broad, sheaths compressed. — E. B. 2975. P. 95. — St. 
ascending, rooting below, or floating. Sheaths nearly smooth, 
