10. GRAMINEiE. 45. Zeocriton. 91 
PL end.ph. 
Gramen secalinum palustre et maritirrsum, Raii Syn. 392,3. 
Hordeum m iritimum, With. Rot. Ar. 172. 
Hordeum marinum, Huds. FI. Ang. 57. 
Zeocriton maritirnum, Pul. de Beauvois. 
Squirrel-tail grass. Marsh rye-grass. 
Grass lands by the sea; annual ; June, July. 
Leaves rather glaucous; locustce pyramidal, compact; 
setce long, stiff, and strongly barbed. 
V. 46. SEC ALE. Pliny. Bye , 
Locusta 1 sessile in each tooth of the rachis, 2 or 
3-flowered, 2 lower fertile, sessile, opposite, uppermost 
abortive; spalhelles subulate, opposite, not notched, shorter 
than the glumes; lower spath llule not notched, ending 
in a very long bristle; upper 2-cut, toothed; lodicule ob- 
ovate, not notched, pilose; ovary bearded; styles 2; stigmata 
feathered; cariopsis husked, furrowed. — Rachis jointed, 
toothed, spiked; spike simple; locustce crowded, imbricate. 
Secale cere ale. Harvest rye . 
Outer spathellule prickly, ciliated. 
Secale, Raii Syn. 388, 1 ; Ger. em. 68. 
Secale vulgatius, Park. 1128. 
Secale cereale, L. S P. 124. 
Triticum cereale, Salis. Prod. 27. 
Cultivated in fields; annual; sown in autumn, for bread 
either alone, or mixed with wheat to form meslin bread, 
not drying so soon as wheat bread : and still more for fer- 
mentation, and the manufacture of rye, malt, or corn- 
spirit. The straw is split, and plaited into women’s hats,&c. 
Root fibrous ; culm above naked, smooth, erect; leaves 
erect; sheaths long, smooth; ligula very short; spike erect; 
locustce glaucous, smooth. 
|3. compositum . Spike branching. 
7. vernum . Spike small, slender ; plant smalh 
Secale vernum seu minus, Raii Syn. 388,2. 
Secale aestivum seu minus, Park. 1129. 
Sown in the spring. 
VI. 47. ELYMUS. Micheli. Lymegrass . 
Locustce 2 or more in each tooth of the rachis, 3 to 
9-flowered ; spathelles in pairs nearly equal ; lower spa - 
iheliule not notched, bristled ; bristle sometimes very short ; 
Upper spathellule 2-cut, toothed; lodicule ovate, whole. 
