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ENGLISH BOTAXY. 
the lower one rounded or faintly keeled on the back, entire or dentate, 
not awned or shortly awned, rather strongly ribbed, parchmentlike; 
upper pale obtuse or bifid, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, entire. Stamens 3. 
Styles 2, terminal, very short ; stigmas hairy, protruded at the sides 
of the flower between the basal margins of the pales. Caryops free, 
glabrous, oblong or fusiform, furrowed on the inner face. 
SPECIES I.-MOL INI A CJ3RULEA. JM. 
Pjlate MDCCXLVn. 
BUIof, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 94. 
'Melic'd ca-TuIea, Linn. Mailt. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. K"o. 750; and Engl. Fl. Vol. 
I. p. 113. 
Enodinm cseruleinn, OnuJ. Fru'.^; Siimm. Veg. Scand. p. 77. 
Aira ciBrulea, Linn. Spec. PI. p. 95. 
Festnea cserulea, D.O. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 46. Bor. FL du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. 
Yol. II. p. 71(3. 
Flowering and barren stems fosciculate, the former with the up- 
permost knot near the base of the stem, without leafless scales at 
the base. Leaves elongate, erect or ascending, not spreading. Ligule 
formed of a ring of hairs. Panicle -branches erect or ascending, short 
or elongate. Glumes 1-ribbed. Lower pale rounded on the back, 
entire, acuminate, but not awned, Tvith 3 slightly prominent ribs; 
upper pale obtuse. 
Var. a, genuina. 
r^:-h. le. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CL. Fig. y7-.>. 
i:nodium ciEmleum, Dumort. Agrost. Belg. p. 108. 
Apex of stem leaves rarely reaching the base of the panicle. Panicle 
narrow, compact, with, short lateral branches. Spikelets usually wholly 
dull purpUsh-biue, rarely green, with the pales edged with purple. 
Yar. 3, major. Roth, 
ba~e of the panicle, or 
L'. Panicle long, lax, with 
