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55. Briza. 10. GR AMINEiE. 
Pl. end.ph. 
Phalaris pratensis altera, Ger.em. 8T. 
Briza maxima, Lin. S. P. 103. 
Briza grand is. Salts!/. Prod. 21. 
Pearl-grass or Garden- shaker. Garden-quaker. 
Dunghills; perennial; June. A doubtful native. 
Culm 2 feet high, naked above ; leaves soft, lax ; locustce 
4 to 8, nearly an inch long. 
XV. 56. MONILIA. Moench. Singlejoint. 
Spathelles alternate, 2 or 3-flowered, shorter than the 
flowrets; glumelles awnless, lanceolate, acute; lodicnle rather 
truncated ; style 2-parted ; stigmata aspergilliform ; cariopsis 
bimucronate with the persisting vestiges of the styles, 
slightly furrowed, furrows broad; panicle compound; locustce 
roundish ; culm with only one joint at the base. 
Monilia ccerulea. Blue singlejoint . 
Panicle long, contracted, equal; locustce erect, oblong, 
cylindrical. 
Gramen miliaceum q. Gramen pratense serofinum, panicula longa pur- 
purescens. Rati Syn. 404, 8. 
Gramen pratense spica lavendulS3, Merret Pinax. 
Aira cserulea, Lin. S. P. 95. 
Melica cserulea, Lin . Mant. 2, 325. 
Monilia cserulea, Moench in Keel. Gram. 145. 
Festuca cserulea, Be Candolle FI. Fr. 1578. 
Enodium cseruleum, Persoon in Gaud. Agrost. Ilelv. 145. 
Monilia varia, Schrank. 
Monilia variahilis, Web. fVerth. 115. 
Purple melic grass. Knotless grass. 
Boggy barren meadows and pastures; peren.; June, July. 
Root tufted ; culm erect, 2 feet long, base thickened into 
a bulb, naked above; leaves stiff; ligula densely hairy; pa- 
nicle erect; locustce. violet, smooth. 
The culms are made into a neat sort of broom. 
|3. sylvatica . Panicle pale ; culm 2 to 3 feet high. 
y. multiflora. Locusta 5 to 6-flowered. 
XVI. 57. MELICA. Dodonaeus. Melich. 
Spathelles alternate, unequal, membranous, almost the 
length of the flowrets, 3 to 5 -flowered ; upper flower incom- 
plete, abortive, pedicelled; glumelles awnless; lodicle trun- 
cated, fringed ; style short, 2-parted; stigmata villose ; ca- 
riopsis free, not furrowed ; panicle few-flowered, compound 
or simple ; culm angular. 
