CiLYCERLA. — SCLEBOCHLOA. 
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striate. L. pale green, acute, often floating. Ligulelong. Pan. 
very long, often nearly simple : branches ■without callosities, 
ascending, lowermost usually in pairs Spikelets adpressed. 
Lower pales rather the shorter, with a triangular central point. 
Anthers about 5 times as lona as broad, purple, pale yellow 
when empty. — 3. G. ptdiceUata ' (Towns.) : pan. -branches 
simple roughish, spikelets of 9 — 13 blunt flowers. L. more 
acute. Lowermost pan.-branches about in threes. Anth. 
about 4 times as long as broad, yellow when young. A. X. H. 
ser. 2. v. 105. Curt Fl. Lond. i. 18. Xearer to j^.icata than 
Jluitam by its rough furrowed sheath, lower pale 3-toothed and 
never exceeding the upper. — 'J. dedinata (Breb., Towns.) is a 
dwarf plant with smooth sheaths, upper exceeding the obtuse- 
angled 3-toothed lower pale, anth. twice as long as broad and 
purple. It also is near plicata. — Watery places. P. Vl. — IX. 
Flot€-gras-?. E. S. I. 
3. G. plicata (Fries) : pan. compound, branches compound 
nearly smooth erect with flowers divaricate icith fruit, spikelets 
linear of 7 — 20 oval-oblong rather acute fl., loicer pale twice as 
long as broad, sheaths compressed. — E. vii. 79. G.f.uitons Sm., 
E. B. 1-520. P. 45. — St. ascending, rooting below. Sheaths 
rough, furrowed. L. glaucous, bluntish, plicate when young. 
Ligule shorter. Pan. much branched ; branches with cal- 
losities at the base, lowermost about in fives. Lower pales 
with 3 teeth at the end. Antli. about 3 times as long as broad. 
cream-coloured, fuscous when emntv. Stagnant water and wet 
places. P. VI.— \nn. ' ■ E. S. ? I. 
37. ScLEEOCH LOA Beav.v. em., Bohr 
* Glumes with 3 veins. 
t Panicle unilateral. 
1. .S'. mant'irna (Lindl.) ; pan. branched, lowermost branches 
in pairs or single, branches ultimately erect, spikelets linear 
adpressed 4 — 8-flowered, rachis terete, loicer pale blunt api- 
cidate, midrib reaching the tip, stoloniferous. — E. B. 1104. 
P. 42. Glyceria M. k K. — Root fibrous, with ascending 
prostrate or rarely rooting leafy stoles. L. involute : the 
central ridge on their upper surface strongly marked the others 
■yl MrTownsend now regards this as a hybrid, G. fiuifansxplicatt.—H. & J. G. 
2 See Crrpin, Softs Fl. litlc. v. 155—214. 
