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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
pound spike, or rarely in 2 rows in a unilateral simple spike or spike- 
like raceme, laterally compressed, each containing a single perfect floret, 
sometimes with a rudimentary one above it. Glumes conspicuous. 
Pales large, nearly equal, the lower one usually keeled, the upper one 
2 -ribbed. Stamens 3, rarely 2. Styles long or rather short; stigmas 
2, protruded at the apex of the floret or about its middle, between the 
tips or edges of the pales. Caryops free, laterally compressed, not 
furrowed. 
GENUS IL-S P A R T I N A . Schreb. 
Spikelets sessile, arranged unilaterally ui 2 rows on the racemosely dis- 
posed branches of a compound spike, laterally compressed, closed during 
flowering, each containing a single perfect floret without the rudiment 
of another. Glumes 2, unequal, the upper one much the larger and 
equalling or exceeding the pales, greatly laterally compressed, keeled, 
pointed or very shortly awned, sub-coriaceous. Pales 2, unequal, the 
upper one much the longer, the lower one lanceolate, compressed and 
keeled, entu-e or notched at the apex, not awned, upper pale folded 
in two with 2 approxunate dorsal ribs not raised into keels. Lodicules 
very short. Stamens 3. Styles 2, elongated, more or less coherent ; 
stigmas long, rather thick, shortly hairy, protruded at the apex of 
the floret. Caryops glabrous, free, strongly laterally compressed, not 
ftirrowed. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Greek, (rxfifirov. Brooms made of 
the Lygeum Spartnm and like material are still caUed spartes by the French, and the 
Spaniards call the Stipa tenacissinia Esjparto, 
SPECIES I.-SPARTINA STRICTA. Moth. 
Plate MDCLXXXYII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I Tab. CLXXI. Fig. 4-51. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. ISo. 1089. 
DaciyHs stricta, Soland. 8m. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 380. 
D. cynosxiroides. Linn. Spec. Plant, p. 104, ex part. 
Trachjnotia stricta. B.C. Fl. Fr. Vol in. p. 74. 
Limnetis pnngens. Pers. Syn. Plant. Vol. I. p. 72. 
Rootstock rather slender, extensively creeping. Stem erect from a 
curved base, leafy to the top, rather stout, soft, smooth. Sheaths articu- 
lated to the leaves, which readily separate from them; ligule* very 
* In this work it is the Hgnle of the nppermost leaf which is described, unless tbe 
other leaves are spemllj mentioned. 
