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leaf ^ to 1 inch long, and usually broader than the others; upper- 
most sheath greatly swollen. Spikes |- to 2 inches long. Spikelets i 
inch long without the awn. Fertile floret | to f inch long, including 
the awn. 
Resembles H. miirinum, but with narrower and firmer leaves, 
shorter and narrower spikes, with more rigid and much more di- 
verging awns, but best known by the unilateral wing-like development 
of the inner glume of the lateral florets. 
Sea-Barley. 
German, Meerstrands Gerste. 
Tribe I. (Z^/s).*— NARDE^. 
Spikelets closed during flowering, sessile, arranged in 2 unilateral 
rows in a simple spike, the rachis of which is excavated to receive 
them, and has at each notch a single spikelet containing 1 perfect floret. 
Glumes absent. Style short ; stigma 1, very long, protruded at the 
apex of the florets between the tips of the pales. Caryops linear- 
trigonous, with a furrow on the inner face. 
GENUS 1. (bis).— N A R D XJ S. Linn. 
Spikelets quite sessile, solitary, arranged in 2 rows in a unilateral 
simple spike, closed during flowering, each containing a single 
perfect floret. Glumes absent. Pales 2, the lower one subulate, 
keeled, awned, parchment-hke ; upper pale entire, obtuse, 2-ribbed. 
Lodicules absent- Stamens 3. Style 1, terminal, terminated by a 
single long slender pubescent stigma, protruded at the apex of the 
floret between the tips of the pales. Caryops free, glabrous, linear, 
trigonous, channelled on the inner face. 
Greek vaploc, some plant with a peneti-ating odour. Why applied to this scentless 
grass, it is difficult to say. 
SPECIES L-N ARDUS STRICTA Linn. 
Plate MDCCCXXIT. 
Beicl. Ic. Fl. Germ, et HelT. Vol. I. Tab. CLXX. Fig. 450. 
Billuf, FL GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. ^o. 189. 
The only known species. 
* This tribe ought to come immediately before Si'Lvdimm. 
