GRAMIXA. 
Links at Rattray Head, Aberdeensliire, but there appears to be no 
record of its occurrence on the west coast, tliough it has been foimd 
in the Isle of Man. Local, but widely distributed in Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Early Summer. 
Plant growing in small tufts. Stems 2 inches to 1 foot high, the 
outer ones in each tuft geniculate at the base, and generally branched, 
with the branches very short, and commonly about equal in length 
among themselves in each tuft : in consequence of this a tuft of the 
plant has one set of panicles near the ground and another raised con- 
siderably above it. Leaves very short, rarely 1 inch long, ^ to i inch 
broad, the uppermost stem-leaf \ to |- inch long, with a very long 
ligule, that of the lower leaves being shorter. Spikelets inch long. 
Glumes pale green with a dark green band on each side of the keel, 
the bristles in the upper part of which are white and shining ; inner 
margins of the glumes furnished with a few bristles, shorter than those 
of the keel. Anthers yellowish-white. 
Sajid Timothy -Grass. 
Tribe YI._SESLERIE.E. 
Spikelets closed during flowering, arranged in a dense cylindrical 
or ovoid or rarely unilateral spikelike panicle, slightly laterally com- 
pressed, each containing 2 to 13 perfect florets. Glumes equal, or the 
lower one shorter, but still very conspicuous. Pales 2, conspicuous, 
the lower one not keeled. Stamens 3. Styles short; stigmas 2, very 
long, protruded at the apex of the floret between the tips of the pales. 
Caryops subcyhndrical, not furrowed, or with a furrow on the inner 
face. 
GENUS X/F.—S E S L E R I A. Scop. 
Spikelets sessile or subsessile, arranged in a very dense cylindrical 
or ovoid spikelike panicle, laterally compressed, closed during flower- 
ing, containing 2 to 6 flowers. Glumes 2, nearly equal, shorter than 
the florets, or nearly equalling them, keeled, mucronate or a^raed, 
subscarious. Pales 2, the lower one rounded on the back, 5-ribbed, 
with 3 or 5 of the ribs terminating in mucros or short setie, parch- 
mentlike ; upper pale with 2 keels, bifid at the apex, scarious. Lodi- 
cules 2, oblong, entire or 2- to 5-cleft. Stamens 3. Styles 2, very 
short, often united ; stigma- very long, slender, pubescent, protruded 
at the apex of the floret. Carj-ops pubescent at the apex, free, oblong, 
