GRAMIXA. 
in tlie noi<'lil)ourliood of Penzance and Poole. Vuzoii P>:iy, Giiernsoy. 
It used to be naturalised on Kew Green, near tlie c liurcli, ^vhcre [ 
uatliered it in 1852; but I am not aware if it stilhrniintains its station 
En<rland. Perennial. Slimmer, Autiinni. 
Stems prostrate, 3 inches to 3 feet long, rooting at intervals, and 
sending up barren and flowering- shoots 2 inches to 1 foot high. 
Barren shoots often prostrate, densely clothed witli distichous rigid 
glaucous leaves 1 to 3 inches long. These leaves arc glaucous, narnjwcd 
towards the apex, glabrous or slightly hairy beneath, with inuiierous 
close cartilaginous ribs, and with a few long cilia^ at tlie rop of the 
sheaths on each side of the ol)Scui*ely marked ligule. Spikes I to 2 
inches long. Glumes more or less thiged with |)urj)le. Spikelets 
jlj inch long. Lower pale ciliated. Stigmas protruded about the 
middle of tlie pales, not between their tips as in the other Sp;irtinea'. 
Creeping Dorfs-tooth-Grcus. 
Yvoni^h, Chirudrnt dacf>jlr. German, <7p/;,;^/-v/.-,- J/. ^. ''^ . 
Devon and Dorset coasts claini it as a riwv nativo. It is, liowevor, li 
tliat minute searcli would at least tend to inerea-e irs stations, as few 
working Botanists are suflicicntly critical in f?ras>es to assure us that 
are ascertained. It throws out long, very tough runners, which creep {"< 
through and over tlie loose soil, rooting at every joint, and furnished w 
short, leaves, of a slightly glaucous hue. When 'in bloom tho grass ha 
liar aspect, differing from that of any other native species. Its lor 
rhizomes and its rapid growth render it an excellent sand-binder, for i 
complete mesh-work of creeping shoots which shelter the sand from thi 
wind, and cover it with a thick carpet of foliage. It is on this acco 
cattle and sheep. In India, where it abounds, it is consid( ■ ' 
and is known as Doorba or Duroa. fts only drawback is i;> 1 
i.y severe frost and its leaves dying off in the winter ; near f :■ 
TKmE IlI.— PAXrCEA-:. 
Spikelets closed during flowering, arranged in a lax o{)en panicle or 
placed in 2 unilateral rows on the branchus of a digitately or race- 
mosely compound spike, or in fascicles arranged in a cyliiidrical often 
dense compound s[)ikelike [>aniole. dorsally conijnvs-c-d, each contain- 
uuccjuul, thu lower one not keeled, the up[>er oiic uf the rudimentary 
