GRAMINA. 
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ated at the base and apex, slightly lobed. Glumes smooth and 
shining, with only the keel scabrous. 
Var. 7, albescens. 
K. albescens, B.C. Oren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 52G. Bor. Fl. du Centre 
de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. 11. p. 718. 
K. arenaria, Bumort. Agrost. Belg. p. 115. 
Leaves narrow, involute. Panicle slender, cylindrical, lobed and 
frequently interrupted towards the base. Glumes glabrous and 
shining, scabrous on the keel. Lower pale less acuminate than in 
vars. a and 3. 
Yar. a rather common, and generally distributed, extending north 
to Sutherland and Ross. Yar. 3 on downs and chalky banks, appa- 
rently confined to England, from whence I have specimens from 
Somerset, Kent, and Cambridge. Yar. y in sandy places by the sea : 
Quenvais, Jersey, Mr. H. 0. Watson ; it should be looked for on the 
southern and western shores of England. Not unfrequent, and gene- 
rally distributed in Ireland ; but I have no means of knowing which 
of the varieties occur in that island. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
is probably the K. pyramidalis of Rochel. ^Leaves green, slightly 
var. a, and consi(UBrably less in vars. p aud 7; the uppermost stem-leaf 
\ to 1.', inch long. Hat. Panicle 1 to o inches long. Spikelets about \ 
incli long, silvery, tinged with green, and, more rarely, also with dull 
Crested Hair-Grass. 
Frencli, KopMrie a Cr0e. German, Kannnr.ruuy- K J^rie. 
on rocks^of an elevation of L500 fe(?t :iboye the ^ea. 
GEXUS XAY.Y.-MOLINIA. SchmnL 
Spikelets stalked, arranged in a compact or lax panicle with 
short or elongate lateral branches, laterally compressed, open during 
flowering, each containing 1 to 4 perfect florets, with a subulate 
rudimentary one above them. Glumes 2, une(piul. both shorter than 
the floret, subacute or subobtuse, but not awned. 1- (rarely 3-) 
ribbed, scarious, or subherbaceous with scarious margins. Pales 2, 
