IG ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I— H IEIi:0CHLOE* BOKEALIS. liom. & Schulfes. 
Plate MDCXCY. 
Beicli. Ic. PI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLXXXIII. Fig. 500. 
H. odorata, WaM. Koch, Syn. PI. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 895. 
Holcus odoratus, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 1485. 
Rootstock extensively creeping, with elongate stolons. Leaves flat. 
Panicle open during and after flowering, with capillary flexuous 
spreading branches. Pedicels wholly glabrous. Glumes acuminate. 
Pales of the male florets mucronate, that of the perfect floret acute. 
In damp places by the sides of rivers and streams. Yery local. 
Abundant by the river near Thurso, Caithness. Said to have been 
found by Mr. G. Don in Glen Cally, Forfarshire. 
Scotland. Perennial. Late spring, early Summer ( ?). 
Eootstock slender, whitish, throwing off stolons which produce in 
late summer and autumn leafy barren stems at a consideral)le distance 
from the parents. On these stems the leaves increase in length from 
the l)ase u[)wards in garden specimens (for I have not seen Avild 
examples of the barren stems), the longest about 1 foot long by ^ inch 
broad, gradually tapering towards the apex, slightly glaucous above, 
and with close flattish ribs, which are rough with minute points, 
bright deep green, smooth and shining below, very rough on the 
margins ; sheaths smooth ; ligule membranous, parabohcal. Flower- 
uig stems in the wild plant (> to 15 inches higli, the sheaths not 
extending above the middle; the uppermost lamina I inch long, and 
the longest not above 2 inches ; ligule much longer than broad, 
lanceolate. Panicle 1 to 2 inches long, the lower branches about half 
the length of the panicle, widely spreading. Florets drooping, I inch 
lonof. Glumes shining, scarious, very pale green, tinged with purple. 
Pales of the male flower scabrous and slightly hairy, the lower one 
strongly ciliated on the margins, acuminate and nmcronate, but the 
niucro *is so short that it scarcely desei-ves the name of an awn. Pales 
of the fertile flower narrower than those of the male florets, more 
shining, and not scabrous. Plant with the scent of Anthoxantlmra. 
Professor Babmgton states that this plant flowers in July, and Dr. 
Hooker in May and June, hi Pil: '^vdun (originally from 
Thurso) it flowers in April. 
