a single perfect floret mthout the rudiment of another. Glumes 2, 
nearly equal, rounded on the back, obtuse and not awned, subscarious, 
longer than the pales. Pales 2, unequal, scarious, truncate, not 
awned, the lower one the larger, rounded on the back, inclosuig 
the upper one, upper one with 2 ribs. Lodicules 2, very minute. 
Stamens 3. Styles 2, free; stigmas very long, slender, hairy, pro- 
truded at the apex of the flower. Caryops glabrous, free, laterally 
compressed, not furrowed. 
Name from x"/^"'? on the ground, and oypworic, grass. 
SPECIES I.-CHAMAGROSTIS MINIMA. Burkh. 
Plate MBCLXXXIX. 
Beich. Ic. Fl, Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLXXH. Fig. 453. 
Billot, n. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1089. 
Mibora vema, Fal. de Beativ. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 4M. Pari. Fl. 
Ital. Vol. I. p. 103. BekTiel, c. p. 57. 
M. minima, Besv. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 401. Bumart Agrost, Belg. p. 137. 
Knappia agi-ostidea. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1127. 
Stnrmia verna, Pers. Si/n. Vol. I. p. 76. 
S. minima, Eoppe. Gaud. Fl. Helv. Vol. I. p. 148. 
Agrostis minima. Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 93. 
The only known, species. 
In sandy pastures by the sea. Very local. Anglesea. Kot un- 
common in Jersey. It is said to have occurred near Leigh, Essex; but 
there are no specimens in existence to confirm this unlikely locality. 
About twenty years ago it was abundant on Gosford Links, Hadding- 
ton, where I believe it Wcis sown by the late Dr. Knapp of Edinburgh; 
but in 1868 it was not to be found there. 
England. Annual. Spring. 
Plant growing in small tufts, producmg numerous flowering stems, 
I to 3 inches high; these stems are setaceous, ascending, smooth, 
tinged with purple, leafy only at the base. Leaves -|- to i inch long, 
very narrowly linear, channelled, obtuse, glabrous, clothed -wath 
minute mised points, the lower ones with dilated white membranous 
sheaths, the upper with narrower and longer sheaths produced at the 
top into wiiite hyaline auricles, which are continued into the pro- 
minent ligule. Spike J to inch long of 4 to 12 subses>;ile unilateral 
and disticlious florets, scarcely ^^.y inch long. Glumes lead-colour 
tinged with purple, with a green keel the outer one subsaccate at the 
bas(j, b'.ith of them tniiicate erose and hyaline at the apex. Pales 
downy with white hairs. 
This little grass ha.s enjoyed a multitude of names, and among 
