ENGLISH BOTANY. 
pressed. Lower pale narrowly scarious at the apex, subacute, mucro- 
nate, o-ribbed, with, three of the ribs prominent and the midrib 
reaching the apex and extending beyond it forming a macro. 
Anthers quadrate-oblong. 
In salt marshes and waste places by the sea and tidal rivers, local. 
Confined to the south and east coast of England, from Sussex to 
Suffolk, or perhaps York. Frequent along the estuary of the Thames, 
especially on the Kentish shore. I have seen no specimens from any 
stations north of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, where I have gathered 
it plentifully, but the Rev. W. W. Newbould has found it at Lowestoft, 
Suffolk. In Ireland it occurs at North Lots, near the mouth of the 
Liffey; at Sandy Mount, and along Dublin Bay. 
England, Ireland. Biennial or perennial. Summer, Autumn. 
Stems f) to IS inches higli. Leaves 2 to 10 inches long by to 
J inch broad, boat-sliaped at the extremity, slightly glaucous. Panicle 
1 to <) inches long. Si)ikelets green, I- to j inch long, rarely faintly 
tinged with purple. Florets inch long. 
A'ery similar to S. distans, indeed intermediate between it and 
S. procumbens, but a more robust plant than S. distans ; the leaves 
usually broader, more abruptly acute and more boat-sliaped at the 
apex ; the panicle much less lax, more or less one-sided, at least 
above the first \yhorl of branches; iianicle-branches stiffer, shorter, 
and bare of florets at the base for a nnich shorter distance than in 
S. distans, never reflexed; spikelets smaller, usually fewer flowered 
and more fasciculate than in S. distans, wholly green, unilaterally 
arranged on the branches of the j)anicle, and attached to pedicels 
which are scarcely longer than wide. Lower pale more acute and 
with a narrow scarious margin, and with the ribs .stronger than in 
S. distans, the midrib always excnrrent, and forming a slight mucro. 
The panicle t>f S. Borreri when looked at from above can bo 
included within a lozenge, the lowest whorl of branches pointing in a 
<lirection different from any of the others. If these lowest branches are 
removed, the remaining part of the panicle may be usually inscri})ed in 
a triangle, and sometimes, when the panicle is short, the whole of it 
may be in>cribed in a triangle; but this is by no means generally tlui 
case, as ^Mons. Crephi suppose^, in his elaborate Monograph, publi>he(l 
in the Htth fasciculus of his " Xotes." I have before me at piesent 
cultivated specimens, raised from the seed of the Essex plant, in 
which it is quite iinp(;>sible to find any one side to which the braiicli<'s 
of the punichi do not i>oiur, and I iiave observed the same in wild 
Kentish and Esm.>x .sfjecimcns. This being so, I have no duul^t what- 
ever that Glyeeria r>eudo-di,>^tans (Crepin) cannot be M-pai-:ir<:d from 
S. Borreri as a distinct species. 
It is with much hesitation that I conjoin S. di:.tans and S. Borreri 
