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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES VI—SCLEROCHLO A LOLIACEA. Woods. 
Plate MDCCLIX. 
Bewh. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. I. Tab. CXXV. Fig. 274. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. 2586. 
Glyceria loiiacea, Watson ; Rooh. fil. Stud. Fl. p. 446. 
Scleropoa loUacea, aren. & Godr. Fl. deFr. Vol. III. p. 557. 
Catapodium loliaceum, Li'nk ; Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 297. I'arl Fl. Ital. Vol. I. 
p. 478. BeicK Ic. I.e. p. 32. 
Poa loiiacea, mids. Eooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 550. 
Triticmn loliaceam, 8m. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 221, & Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 185. 
T. RottboUia, B.C. Fl. Fr. Vol. IH. p. 86. 
J Jrachypodium loHacemn Bom. & Schultes ; Fries, Samm. Veg. Scand. p. 75. 
Festnca rottbolUoides, K^mth, Enum. Plant. Vol. I. p. 395. 
Annual. Without barren shoots. Flowering stems rather few, 
rather stout, rigid, decumbent or ascending from a curved or 
geniculate base, sometimes curved throughout. Leaves narrowly 
linear, thin, not at all fleshy, nearly flat, tapering to the apex, with 
numerous slender prominent cartilaginous ribs ; sheaths smooth, 
the uppermost one about as long as its leaf ; ligule elongate, oblong, 
truncate, often erose-denticulate. Panicle distichously unilateral, 
spicate, rather dense, linear. Rachis with approximate nodes, anci[)i- 
tnte-triquetrous. Panicle-branches all simple, rigid, solitary at each 
node of the rachis, resembling very short pedicels, or the lower ones 
slightly elongated and with 2 to 5 spikelets, erect in flower and fruit. 
iS[)ikelet5 rather few, unilaterally, distichously, and subspicately disposed 
on and adpressed to the lower branches of the panicle, solitary and 
terminal on the extremely short branches of the upper half of the 
panicle, or throughout; the lateral and solitary ones subsessile; all 5- 
to U-flowered, usually 7- or 8-flowered. Glumes obtuse, sometimes 
miicronate, hooded, 1-ribbed, or the upper one 3-ribbed; the upper 
one covering three-fourths of the second floret and reaching to the 
base of the fourth floret. Florets separated from each other by a 
portion of tlie rachis as long as half the width of the lower pale, 
hower pale broadly scarious at the apex, oblong-elliptical in profile, 
ubruptly narrowed at the apex, obtuse, finely mucronate, conspicuously 
-l-ribhed, the lateral ribs prominent, the midrib thick, shortly excur- 
rent and tbrming a mucro. 
On sandy sea-coa.r^ ■ ^ ■ • - by the sea; rather locally 
.li^tribnted round tl: coast; rare in Scotland, 
whore it is record.-] ; . uh. and Fife, and also from 
Fortar.-riiifc, bur tlit . ■ o ue tjonnnued by recent 
