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of any well authenticated Scotch station, though it is said to occur in 
Forfarshire. Widely distributed in the south and east of Ireland. 
England, Ireland. Biennial or perennial ( ?). Summer, Autumn. 
Stems 3 to 18 inches high, rather thick but weak, sometimes in dry 
places quite prostrate. Leaves 2 to 7 inches long by to i inch 
broad. Panicle 1 to 3 inches long, the branches in the middle as 
long as those at the base. Spikelets ^ to I inch long. Florets 4 iuch 
long. 
Distinguished from S. Borreri by its more compact and more 
jjerfectly unilateral panicle, with the lower branches much shorter in 
proportion to the middle ones, by its longer spikelets and florets, by 
its lower pale being more strongly ribbed towards the apex in fruit, 
and with its midrib either not excurrent or forming only a very 
minute mucro. The leaves also are broader, and the ligule much 
longer and more acute. 
S. distans, S. Borreri, and S. procumbens, are all perennant: 
generally the plant dies after once flowering, but sometimes the root 
remains alive, and throws up flowering stems the second year. 
Procumbmt Meado)r- Grass. 
Section II.— SCLEROPOA. Griesh. 
Rachis and panicle-branches ancipitate -triquetrous. Spikelets 
broadly elliptical and greatly laterally compressed before flowering, 
(ilumes nearly equal, both 1-ribbed, or rarely the upper one 3-ribbed. 
Lower pale 3-ribbed, conspicuously keeled in the apical half. Caryops 
ovoid-linear, furrowed on the face. 
SPECIES V._SCLEROCHLOA RIGIDA. LM. 
Plail MDCCLVIII. 
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Fl dc Fr. 
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Annual. Without barren .-hoot.-. flowering ..tern.- rather few, 
fclender, wiry, erect or ascending, sometime;, from u curved or genicu- 
