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and subcompressed. Lower glume faintly 1 -ribbed, the upper one 
3-ribbed. Lower pale more or less broadly scarious at the apex, 
obtuse or acute, sometimes mucronate, faintly or rather strongly 5- 
ribbed, with the midrib falling short of the apex or excurrent. 
Anthers oblong. 
Sub-Species I.— Sclerochloa distans. Sab. 
Plate MDCCLV. 
Jlei,-h, Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CLI. Figs. 375 & 370. 
Bllhf, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. N"o. 184. 
Glyccria distans, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 118. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. 
p. 932. Fries, Maut. ii. p. 10, & Summ. Ycg. Scand. p. 77. Grm. & Godr. Fl. de 
Fr. Vol. III. p. 5.-)(>. Cfcj). Man. Fl. Belg. ed. ii. p. 347, & Not. Fasc. 5, pp. 200 
& 22G. Reich. Ic. I.e. p. 47. 
Puccinellia distans, Pari Fl. Ital. Vol. J. p. 3G7. 
Poa distant Li»». Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 98G. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. od. xiu. 
p. 54i). Undl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 318. 
Fcytuca .listana, Kuatli, Erium. Plant. Vol. I. p. 303. 
Flowering stems rather weak. Leaves gradually hooded at the 
apex. Panicle nearly equal, lax, triangular or oblong in outline. 
Panicle-branches very slender or capillary, weak, from 3 to G at the 
lower nodes of the rachis, but generally 5, unequal, the longer ones 
unbranched and bare of spikelets at the base for nearly half their 
length, ascecding- spreading in flower, reflexcd in fruit. Spikelets 
(iii>richously and spicato-racemosely disposed on the branches of the 
panicle ; the lateral ones on extremely short thick pedicels, which are 
!r-lightly dilated upwards and usually about as long as the lower 
glume; all 3- to 8-fiowered, usually 5- or 6-flowered, at first com- 
pressed subcylindrical, afterwards oblong-elliptical and much com- 
pressed. Lower pale broadly scarious at the apex, obtuse, not 
mucronate, very faintly o- ribbed, with the midrib falling short of the 
apex. Anthers oblong. 
ViO". a, (lenuina. 
Ligule dcltf)id, sul^'icute. Lower pale obliquely truncate, and so 
forming an obtuse angle at the apex. 
Yar. 3, obtiisa. Parn. 
Ligule tran>v'avcly truncate. Lower pale tran- verse ly truncate, 
and rounfled at the apex. 
In salt marches, waste j)laces, especially sufh as are overflowed iu 
winter by the sea and tidal rivers. Cumnion, and general!}' distributed. 
