146 
montuHa, 
alpine, 
entarSika. 
*cane!cens, 
chiner.iis. 
* pracox. 
*iaryophjl. 
he a. 
fetdcea. 
ciliata. ( 
gigantea. ( 
gtnkuldtai ( 
TRIAND. DIGYN. 133, Mellea. 
3. CuliTT more leafy : panicle white : peduncles hardly flexuoO*' 
Scheuch.prodr. t. Moris,/. 8, r. 7. the left jig. 
Leaves fetaceous;. panicle narrow: florets hairy at 
bafe, with a longer twilled awn. 
Europe. Stilling/, gram. t. 4. 
Leaves_ fubulate : panicle dcnfe : florets hairy at the 
with a ihort awn. ^ 
Lapland. Germany. Flor./uec. 69. 73. 
Leaves flat: panicle compound, fpreading: calyxes V 
flowered : florets with a long llraightilh atvn in *1''’ 
middle. 
New Zealand. For/, prodr. 41. Willden. i.p. 379. 
Leaves fetaceous: culm leafy: panicle contradled: 
clavate at the tip, lliorter than the calyx. 
Sea coali. Wither, 137. t. 24. Flor. Dan. 1023, 
L^ves fetaceous : panicle eredl : florets awned, villous. 
China. Retx. ob/^. p.io. Willden. i . p, 380. 
Leaves fetaceous, with angular flieaths: panicle fpik^' 
form: florets feffile, naked at the bafe^ awned on tb' 
back. 
Sandy pallures. Curt. Lond.fa/c. 3. r. 7. F/br. Dan. t. 383. 
Leaves fetaceous : panicle trichotomous, divaricate : flofe'^ 
lelhlc, with a twilled awn on the back 
Sandy pallures. Eng. Eot. 8 1 2. Curt. Lond. fafc, 6. r. 6. 
Leaves fetaceous; panicle dilFufc: florets hairy at the 
the lower-one awnlefs, upper with a Ihort awn. 
' Fetx.obf, 5. p. 10. Willaen. i, p. 381. 
133.. MELT C A. Calyx 2-yalved, rnoftly 2-flowere^’ 
with an imperfea one between them : coral 2' 
valved. Melic-grdfi' 
Outer petal of the lower floret ciliate, 
Europe. Culms upright with purple joints : leaves lanceolat^' 
macronate, flat, llightly downy above, glabrous underneath* 
Corols hairy, awned; panicle wborled : culm ere£l. 
The Cape. Thunh. prodr. zt, Aira villofa. Linn. Suppl. 
panicle contradled : culm decumbent. 
The Cape, Thunb. prodr. 21. Willden. i.p. 382. 
rrof. Martyn fufpedls this to be fame as Ehrarta calyc‘“’^* 
Smith ic. ined, 33. which is alfo a native of the Cape. 
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