GEAMINA. 
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as subspecies, and have thought it best to give a new name to the 
aggregate under which I have included them. 
Borrer's Meadow-Grass. 
SPECIES III— SCLEROCHLOA PROCUMBENS. FnL.ie Domr. 
Plate MDCCLVII. 
Billut, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Ex.sicc. No. 2587. 
Gljcoria procaimbcns, Sm. Brit. Fl. Vol. I. p. 119. Hook, f I. Stud. Fl. p. 446. Gnu. 
& Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 537. Crep, Man. Fl. Belg. ed. il. p. 347, & note 
fasc. 5, p. 208. 
Scleropoa procnmbens, Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. I. p. 474. 
Poa procnmbens, GuH. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 532. //-/.. & Am. Uvit. Fl. ed. viU. 
p. 550. 
Festuca procnmbens, Ktmth, Ernim. Plant. Vol. I. p. 393. 
Rootstock cjBspitose, producing a few short ascending leafy barren 
shoots which do not root at the nodes, and very numerous flowering 
stems. Flowering stems rather stout, weak, ascending or decumbent 
or procumbent, sometimes from a curved or geniculate base. Leaves 
of the barren shoots ascending or erect, linear, rather thick, but not 
at all fleshy, flat, deeply hooded at the apex, with numerous thick 
prominent cartilaguious ribs. Stem leaves similar to those of the 
barren shoots; sheaths smooth, the upper one longer than its leaf; 
ligule elongate, narrowly triangular, acute. Panicle distichously 
unilateral, dense, ovate- or lanceolate-oblong. Rachis with approxi- 
mate nodes, trigonous. Panicle-branches rigid, 2 or 3 at each of 
the lower nodes of the rachis, the longer ones bare of spikelets and 
unbranched at the base for from one-third to one-eighth of their 
length, once- or thrice-branched, erect-ascending in flower, spreading- 
ascending or spreading in fruit. Spikelets numerous, unilaterally, 
distichously, and spicately disposed on and divei^ng from the 
branches of the panicle ; the lateral ones sessile ; all 3- to 6-flowered, 
but usually 5-flowered. Lower glume l-ribbed, the upper one 3-ribbed. 
Lower pale rather broadly scarious at the apex, subobtuse, sometimes 
faintly raucronate, rather strongly 5-ribl>ed, with the ribs prominent 
towards the apex, and the midrib reaching the apex or sometimes 
slightly cxcurrent and forming a minute n-.ucro. Antbers quadrate- 
oblong. 
On waste ground and by the sides of roads near the sea and tidal 
rivers. Common in the south and east of England, rare in the north, 
though extending to the counties of Lancaster and Northumberland; 
but though it grows as far nortb as the Ferne Islands, I am not aware 
