GRAMTXA. 
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" Xorfolk " (Hooker and Arnott's " British Flora ") ; but the station, 
if it exist, appears to be unknown to the Rev. Kirby Trimmer. 
England. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Stems numerous, spreading in a circle, generally simple, but 
branched in luxuriant examples, 2 inches to 1 loot long, slender, leafy 
throughout. Leaves ^ inch to 3 inches long by to k inch broad, 
gradually tapering towards the apex, dark dull green often tinged 
with purplish, with numerous, not contiguous, ribs, and 5 to 7 
stronger ribs. Spikes h to 3 inches long, slender, approximate, ulti- 
mately divaricate. Spikelets about 3^ ^^^^ l^^g, at first green, ulti- 
mately more or less tinged with dark purple, the lower one nearly 
sessile, the upper one of each pair with a stalk of about its own length. 
Lower glume absent or very small. 
Glabrous Finger- Gras.«. 
GENUS F/.— E 0 H I N O C H L O A. Pal de Beauv. 
Spikelets subsessile, in shortly stalked pairs and fascicles, uni- 
laterally arranged in 2 rows on the raceraosely disposed branches of 
a panicle resembhng a compound spike, dorsally plano-convex, closed 
daring flowering, each containing a single perfect floret with the rudi- 
ment of a second neuter one beneath it. Glumes 2, verj^ unequal, the 
lower one much smaller than the upper, the upper one as long as the 
pales, rounded on the back, 5-ribbed, mucronate or awned, subscarious. 
Pales 2, equal, parchmentlike, not ribbed, smooth, acute, but not 
awned, concave, not keeled on the back, the lower floret with 2 pales, 
the lower one of which is ribbed, often awned, and resembles the 
upper glume. Lodicules 2, fleshy. Stamens 3. Styles 2, terminal, 
elongate ; stigmas rather long, thick, plumose, protruded at the apex 
of the flower. Caryops free, biconvex, not furrowed. 
This genus was probably named from some fancied resemblance to a Ledgeliog, 
