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Yar. 3, defiexa. 
Panicle-branches deflexed or reflexed in fruit. 
In salt marshes and on moist shores of the sea and tidal rivers ; 
common, and generally distributed. Yar. i3 Rhyl, Flint, Mr. J. 
mittaker ; " at the farthest extremity of the St. Helen's Spit," Isle 
of Wight, Dr. Bromfield in " Flora Yectensis." 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Plant growintr in dense tufts, with very numerous trailing and 
sometimes rooting barren shoots, from a few inches to 1 foot or more 
long, with numerous spreading distichous leaves 1 to 4 inches long. 
These leaves appear rush-like, but are really folded together. Flower- 
ing stems 6 inches to 2 feet high. Panicle 2 to 6 inches long; the 
longest branches 1 to 2^ inches. Spikelets ^ to ^ inch long, accord- 
ing to the number of florets, pale green, often tinged with purple, 
especially on one side. Florets \ to \ inch long. 
Creeping Sea Meadow- Grass. 
SPECIES lI.~SCLEROCHLOA MULTICULMIS. 
Plates MUCCLV. MDCCLVI. 
Glyceria distans, BooTcfil. Stud. Fl. p. 446. 
.Rootstock ccBspitose, producing a few short ascending or erect leafy 
barren shoots, which do not root at the nodes, and very numerous 
flowering stems. Flowering stems erect or ascending, sometimes from 
a curved or geniculate base. Leaves of the barren shoots ascending 
or erect, rather thick but not at all fleshy, flat, more or less hooded 
at the apex, with numerous thick prominent cartilaginous ribs. Stem 
leaves similar to those of the barren shoots; sheaths smooth, the 
upper one longer than its leaf; ligule short, deltoid or truncate. 
Panicle nearly equal or more or less distichously unilateral, lax, or 
ratlier lax, triangular-oblong or rhomboidal-oblong in outline, 
llachis with distant nodes. Panicle-branches weak or rather rigid, 
varying in number from 2 to 6 at each of the lower nodes of the 
rachis, unequal, the longer ones bare of spikelets, and unbranched at 
the base from one-half to one-eighth of their length, usually once- or 
twice-branched, erect or ascending in flower, ascending or sprcading- 
ascending in fruit. Spikelets numerous, distichously and spicato-race- 
mosely, or unilaterally-di.stichously and subspicately dispo.sed on and 
adpressed to the branches of the panicle, the hitoral ones subses- 
sile, all 2- to 8-flowered, at first subcylindrical, afterwards oblon'» 
