PL end. ph. 10. GRAMINEiE. 65. Glyceria. 125 
Glyceria flint ans. Floating manna- grass. 
Panicle spread out, facing one way ; locustce linear, 
round, compressed, adpressed; spathdlules 7-ribbed; root 
creeping. 
Gramen prateuse q. Gramen aquaticum cum longissima panicula, Rail 
Syn. 412,17, 
Gramen fluviatile, Gcr. em. 14; Park. 1275. 
Festuca fiuitans, Lin. S. P. 111. 
Poa fiuitans, Sulisb. Prod. 219. 
Desvauxia fiuitans, Palisot de Bcauvois . 
Glyceria fiuitans, Brown Prod. 
Flo te- grass. 
Rivers and watery places; peren. ; April to September. 
Culm ascending, lower joints rooting; leaves flat, obtuse, 
broad ; lower leaves floating ; sheaths long ; ligula deltoid, 
short; panicle long; peduncles solitary or in pairs, very 
spreading ; locustce blunt, green and white. 
fr terrestris . Panicle scarcely branched, very small. 
y. vivipara. Glume and glumelle changed into leaves. 
2". maritima. Leaves glaucous, blunt, broad; locustce 
6 or 8-flowered. 
XXV. 66. DACTYLIS. Roughgrass . 
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Glume 2 to 7-flowered ; spathelles alternate, nearly 
equal, shorter than the flowrets; glumelle bristled; lower 
spathellule nicked below the tip, bristled ; upper 2-cut, 
toothed; lodicule ovate, hairy; stigmata villose; cariopsis 
free, scarcely furrowed.— Rachis panicled ; panicle branched ; 
peduncles short; locustce many, crowded into 1 -sided heads. 
Dactylis glomerata. Balled roughgrass. 
Panicle very much branched; peduncles alternate, spread- 
ing; leaves carinate. 
Gramen arundinaceum q. Gramen asperum, Raii Syn. 400, 2. 
Dactylis glomerata, Lin. S. P. 105. 
Brooms glomeratus, Scop. Cam. 111. 
Festuca glomerata, Vill. Dauph. 2, 98. 
Rough cocksfoot. 
Fields and hedges; perennial; June to August. 
Root fibrous, tufted ; cidm erect, 2 feet high, naked above; 
leaves acute, dark green ; sheaths compressed ; ligula long. 
