PL end.ph. 
10. GRAMINEJE. 57. Melica. ill 
1. Melica uniflora. One-flowered rnelick. 
Panicle branchy, spreading, 1 -sided; locustce ovate, 
erect, long footstalked; hermaphrodite flower single; cidm 
very smooth. 
Gramen miliaceum q. Gramen avenacemn nemorense, glumis rarioribus 
ex fusco xerampelinis, Rail Syn. 403, 6. 
Melica nutans, Huds. FI. Ang.SI. 
Melica uniflora, Retz. Obs. Hot. 1, 10. 
Melica Lobelii, Fill. Delph. 2,90. 
Wood melick-grass. 
Woods and hedges; perennial; May and June. 
Culms 12 in. high, filiform, slender, very smooth, leafy, 
ascending; leaves flat, thin, light green; sheaths short; 
ligula very short, truncated ; panicle irregular ; glumes 
purple. 
2. Melica nutans . Drooping m click. 
Panicle scarcely branched, contracted, 1 -rowed; locustce 
ovate, pendulous; hermaphrodite flowers 2; culm rough 
above. 
Gramen miliaceum q. Gramen avenaceum locustis rubris montanum, 
Rail Syn. 403, 7. 
Gramen locustis rubris, Park. 1151. 
Melica nutans, Lin. S. P. 98. 
Melica montana, Huds. FI. Ang.SI. 
.Aira nutans, Willd. Prod. 143. 
Mountain melic-grass. 
Mountainous woods; perennial; June, July. 
Root creeping; culm erect; leaves erect, short; ligula 
very short, torn; panicles racemose, few-flowered; glumes 
scariose, white, edge purple. 
XVII. 58. TRIODIA. R. Brown. Three-cut . 
Spathelles alternate, 3 to 5-flowered, boatshaped, longer 
than the flowrets ; glumelles 2-cut, toothed ; lower spathel - 
lule toothed, with a mucro between the teeth ; mucro thick, 
toothshape ; lodicle lanceolate, not notched, smooth ; ovary 
beaked; beaks 2-cut, diverging; style 2-parted; stigmata 
aspergilliform ; panicle not branched, few-flowered. 
Triodia decumlens . Downlying three-cut . 
Panicle contracted; locustce oblong, ovate, 3 or 4-flowered; 
leaves flat, pubescent. 
