GKAMINA. 
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Rare inland. Var. |3 in the west of England : Bideford, Devon ; Beadley 
Bay, Gloucester; Breedon, Leicestershire ; and near Dublin. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or perennial ( ?). Summer, 
Autumn. 
Stems 3 inches to 2 feet high. Leaves with the barren shoots 
1 to 6 inches long by to ^ inch broad, slightly glaucous. Stem 
leaves short, the uppermost one ^ to 3 inches long. Panicle 2 to 
10 inches long, pyramidal, Spikelets ^ to ^ inch long, often tinged 
with purple, but sometimes wholly green. Florets yV to | inch long. 
The var. 3 is scarcely deserving of separation from the type. 
S. distans bears considerable resemblance to S. maritima, but the 
barren shoots are not prostrate, and the leaves on them are not spread- 
ing, not fleshy, nor conduplicate ; the flowering stems :ire more nume- 
rous, weaker ; the panicle is nearly equal, not unilateral ; the panicle - 
branches more numerous, more slender, and more of them bare of 
spikelets at the base ; the pedicels are considerably shorter ; the 
glumes smaller, and the lower one with rarely more than 1 rib ; the 
spikelets smaller and much more numerous; the lower pale shorter, 
blunter, and more obtuse; and the anthers shorter than in S. maritima. 
Reflexed Meadow- Grass. 
French, Glyc^rle ^mdc^. German, Msfehevder Schidngel. 
Sub-Species II.— Sclerochloa Borreri. Bah. 
Plate MDCCLVI. 
TyiWd, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2177. 
Glyceria Borreri, JBah. Eng. Bot. Snppl. No. 2797. Hool-.fil. Stud. Fl. Grep, Man. 
Fl. Belg. p. 347, and note fasc. 5, pp. 208 & 241. 
G. conferta, Fnes. Hook. fil. Stud. Fl. p. 44*;i. F/vV.., :Mant. ii. p. 10, & Summ. 
Veg. Scand. p. 77. Gren. & Goclr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. IH. p. 536. 
Poa Borreri, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. .549. 
Flowering stems rather tirm. Leaves abruptly hooded at the 
apex. Panicle nearly equal in the lo%ver half, and unilaterally 
distichous in the upper, or wholly unilaterally distichous, ultimately 
rather lax and rhomboidal-oblong, or subtriangular-oblong in outline. 
Panicle-branches rather rigid, usually 2, but sometimes 3, 4, 
or 5 ; the lower nodes of the rachis, unequal, the longer ones un- 
branched and bare of spikelets at the base for from one-eighth to 
one-third of their length, erect — ascending in flower, ascending or 
spreading-ascending in fruit. Spikelets unilaterally, distichously, 
and subspicately disposed on the branches of the panicle; the lateral 
ones subsessile ; all 2- to 7-flowered, but usually 3- or -l-flowered, at 
first compressed subcylindrical, afterwards oblong and much com- 
