PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINErE. 52. Sclefoch. 101 
C. Bromeje. Rachis panicled ; locusta solitary, 1, 2, or 
many-flowered j glumes keeled ; glumelle< of the same con 
sistence as the glumes ; lower spathellule concave or cari- 
nate, awned or awnless ; upper 2-keeled ; styles 2. 
XI. 52. SCLEROCHLOA. Beauvois. Spraygrass. 
Spathelles parallel, unequal, 3 to 5-flowered, obtuse, 
shorter than the flowrets ; lower spathellule cordately 
nicked, obtuse; iLpper not nicked; lodicule nicked? ovary 
beaked ; stigmata feathered ; cariopsis free, furrowed ? 
beaked, beak 2-cut; rachis panicled or spiked; locustcB 
2-rowed, sessile, hermaphrodite. 
Sclerochloa procumbens . Procumbent spray-grass . 
Panicle lanceolate, contracted, unilateral, rough ; rachis 
round ; locustce 3, 4, or 5-flowered ; flowrets bluntly ribbed. 
Poa procumbens, Curtis Lond. 11. 
Prt a rupesiris, With. 146, 126, 
Sclerochloa procumbens. Pal. de Beauvois. 
Inundated sea-rocks and ruins; annual; July, August. 
Root fibrous, tufted ; culm prostrate, mostly 6 in, long ; 
leaves glaucous, very long sheathed, broad, acute, flat, 
acutely ribbed, rather rough ; ligula torn ; panicle stiff ; 
locusta lanceolate, glaucous; spathelles obtuse, very unequal, 
keeled, outer 5-ribbed; spathellules linear, 5-ribbed, apex 
membranaceous, torn, inner ciliated. 
XII. 53. MEG AST ACHY A. Beauvois. Ferngrass . 
Spathelles alternate, 5 to 20-flowered ; shorter than the 
flowrets ; lower spathellule nicked, mucronate between the 
teeth ; upper 2-cut, toothed ; stigmata villose ; cariopsis 
free, not furrowed ; panicle compound ; locusta long, pedi- 
celled ; flowrets 2-rowed, imbricate, hermaphrodite. 
Megastachya rigida. Stiff ferngrass. 
Panicle 2-ranked, 1-rowed, contracted, stiff, smooth; 
locusta linear, acute, 5 to 1 1 -flowered ; rachis margined; 
spathellules free, obsoletely 5-ribbed ; root fibrous. 
Gramcn pratense q. iramen exille duriusculum in minis et aridis pro- 
veniens, Raii Syn . 410,8. 
Gr^mcn minus duriusculum, Ger. cm. 4. 
Gramen panioula multi plica. Park. 1157. 
Poa rigida, Lin. S. P. 101. 
^legastachya igida, Pal.de Beauv. T4. 
Small hard grass . 
