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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
])ack, indistinctly keeled towards the apex only. Caryops oblong- 
linear, not furrowed on its face. 
SPECIES I-SCLEROCHL OA MARITIMA. Lmdl.(_non Bekh.) 
Plate MDCCLIV. 
Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLI. Pig. 377. 
Glyct'T-i-a maritima, WaJd. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 118. Hool; Stud. Fl. p. 445. 
Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 'J8;J. Fric^, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 77. 
Gren. & (;<„Jr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 5:35. Crc^K Man. Fl. liolg. ed. ii. p. 347, & 
Not. Fa.sc. V. pp. 200 «& 21(3. Reich. Ic. I.e. p. 48. 
Piiceinollia miiritima, Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. I. p. 570. 
I'ua ni;>mima, {b>'l^. Eng. But. ed. i. No. 1 MO. iTo../.-. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viiJ. 
p. 54l>. 
Fostnca tluilussica, K.-ath, Enuni. Plant. Vol. I. p. 304. 
Rootstock densely ca;pitose, producinpr very numerous elonf^ate 
decumbent or prostrate leafy barren stems or shoots, which sometimes 
root at the nodes, and a few lioweririg stems. Flowering stems 
ascending or erect usually from a curved or geniculate base, rather 
rigid. Leaves of the barren stcm^ distichousl)- spreading, thick and 
fleshy, folded so as to appear sul^cylindrical with a groove on the 
upper surface. Stem leaves thinner, channelled, or in luxuriant speci- 
mens nearly flat witli a few very thick prominent cartilaginous ribs; 
sheaths smooth, the uppermost one longer than its leaf; ligule short, 
truncate. Panicle unilaterally distichous. Rachis Avith distant nodes. 
rai]icle-i)ninches rather slender, rigid, 2 or 3 at each of the lower 
nodt^s of the rachis, unequ:d, the longer ones unbranched and bare 
of florets at the ba<e for nearly half their length, simple or once- 
(very rarely twice-) branched, spreading in flower, adpresscd or, 
rarely, reficxcd in fruit. Spikelets usually fcAv. unilaterally and race- 
mosely disposed on and adpressed to the branches of tlie ])anicle; the 
lateral spikelets on 5,liort thick pedicels which are dilated ii})wards 
and usually about as long as the lower glume, 3- to S-flowered, at 
first compressed subcylindrical. aft(,'r\vard^ <)bl(-)n;j--t'liiptical and 
greatly compressed. Glumes unerpial. both 3-rLbbcd, or the lower 
-nc sometimes l-ribbed. Lower j-alc narrowly or, nirely, broadly 
<<Mrions ar rh" ap. xrj,,. Mite <.r ..btii-^', not mucmrijitc. o-ribbed, the 
