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acuminate, lanceolate, compressed. Inner ylumdla white, delicate, 
reticulate, bifid, with two longitudinal folds. 
ff Styles very short. Stigmas elongated , filiform , united to the 
middle. 
22. Sesleria Scop. Moor-grass. (Tab. VII. f. 20.) 
Panicle spike-like, somewhat terete or slightly unilateral. 
Snikelets laterally compressed, with 2 or more perfect florets. 
Glumes 2, somewhat unequal, 1 -nerved, about as long as or 
longer than the florets. Glumellas 2, naked at the base, mem- 
branous ; outer one keeled, incise and with a short bristle at the 
end. Caryopsis free. Style very short. Stigmas filiform, papil- 
lose, united to above the middle. — Named after Leonard Sesler, 
an Italian physician and botanist. 
1 . S. ccerulea Scop. (J)lue 31.) ; panicle ovate bracteate slightly 
unilateral, outer glumella with 2 — 4 teeth at the apex the mid- 
rib rough and terminating in a short bristle. E. B. t. 1613 : 
Pam. Gr. t. 27. Cynosurus L. 
Mountains in the north of England, Scotland, and west of Ireland ; 
especially abundant in limestone regions. If. 4 — 6. — One of our 
earliest grasses, and a very beautiful one. The roots much tufted. 
Culms 6 — 18 inches high. Leaves linear, obtuse, with a minute rough 
point. Spike of a shining bluish-grav, with large yellow anthers 
tipped with purple. Spihelets generally in pairs, oblong-ovate, the 
lower ones with an ovate ciliate and toothed bractea at the base. 
Glumes ovato-lanceolate, 3-toothed, middle tooth lengthened into an 
awn and often bifid, pubescent at the keel and margin. Florets longer 
than the glumes. Outer glumellas 1-ribbed, pubescent or ciliate, with 
1 or 2 teeth on each side of the bristle or short awn ; inner one bifid 
at the point. 
fff Styles elongated. Stigmas plumose , much broader than 
the style. 
23. Hierochloe Gmel. Holy-grass. (Tab. VII. f. 19.). 
Panicle mostly lax. Spihelets laterally compressed, 3-flowered, 
without neuter florets. Glumes 2, nearly equal, membranous, 
about as long as the spikelet. Central floret perfect, diandrous; 
glumellas 2, permanently membranous. Lateral florets bar- 
ren, triandrous. Caryopsis free. — Named from tepog, sacred, and 
X^oa, or a grass ; so called because, in some parts of 
Prussia, it is strewed before the doors of the churches on festi- 
val-days. 
1. H. borealis R. et S. (Northern H.) ; panicle subsecund, 
peduncles glabrous, florets awnless, outer glumellas ciliate at 
the margin. E. B. S. t. 2641 : Pam. Gr. t. 31. Holcus 
Schrad. Holcus odoratus L. 
