GRAMINA. 
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4 to 14 inches long by 2 to G inclies broad, with very nuniorous spike- 
lets. Florets i inch long, rarely viviparous. Anthers yellow. 
Reed Meadow-Grass. 
French, GhjCi^-ie jiotUinte. German, Wasscr ScJucadcn. 
This is a true aquatic species of grass, usually growing in water, either of ponds or 
rivers. Its panicles of neatly formed awnlesa locustoB of flowers are very impo.sing, 
for waterfowl. On cultivating this grass in plots of land out ol the water curious 
even then too harsh to be of any value. 
The leaves of this grass are parlioularly liable to attacks of [Tr> ■/.. , Snw , 
Elongated Uredo, which occurs in long olive-brown slits boueath tlu; (.'jyiileniLis of 
the leaves. 
GENUS XXXinSCI.IlB,OCB.IjO A. PalJeBmm: Bah. 
Spikelets (excepting the terminal ones) subsessile or very shortly 
stalked, arranged in a lax or dense panicle, which is usually more or 
less distichously luiilateral and sometimes reduced to a spikelikf^ 
raceme, slightly laterally compressed before "flowering, open during 
lluwering, each containing .3 to 11 perfect llorets. Glumes persi.^tent, 
unequal or nearly equal, both shorter tlum the florets, not awned, 
subscarious. Pales 2. the lower one concave, rounded on the back, 
at least towards the ba>e, but often keeled towards the a[)ex, not 
awned, with 5 (rarely 3) rather faint ribs, parchment-like, more or 
less scarious at the apex, which is obtuse or shortly mucronate; upper 
pale bidentate, 2-ribbed. the ribs usually >trongly setose-ciliiite Lodl- 
cules 2, acute or bilobed. St;iniens 3. Styles 2, tt riniiial. very -liorr, 
caducous; stigmas clothed with simple hairs, protruded the -ide- <4" 
the floret between the margins of the pales. Caryops fan-, uhJ.rou-. 
narrowly t>bh)ng. or linear, usually not dhstii.ctly furrowed (.n the 
inner face. 
Section L— IIELE< )CnL< KV Fne^. 
Rachis and panicle-branches Mibc\ liridrical or bluntly triangular. 
Spikelets sul)cylin<lrical vety slighrly laterally compre^M.d befor-' 
{lowering. (.lume> v^try uiM-quaL the lo^.ver one minute. 1 - to ;i-ribbed, 
the upper larger and :3-nbbed. Lower pale .Vriblied, r.-mfled on the 
