82 DIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Anthoxanthum. 
as large as the spikelet. Hooker observes that the habit is very different 
from Schcenus, as is the fruit, being a nut with a remarkably thick shell., 
whose brown and glossy epicarp, or external skin, separates readily from 
the osseous part. 
Prickly Twig-rush, or Bog-rush. Welsh: Llymdreiniog, Pibfrivynen. 
Schcenus Mariscus. Linn. With. Ed. 6. Willd. FI. Brit. C. Mariscus. 
Br. Hook. Sm. Eng. FI. In fens and marshes; sometimes near the sea; 
rare in Scotland; Restenat moss drained. Not common in England. 
Hell Kettles, near Darlington. Mr. Robson. Ellingham Fens, Norfolk ; 
and near St. Olave’s Bricjge, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Llanddyffnan, 
&c. Anglesey. Rev. H. Davies. On moors about Cambridge. Mr. 
Crowe. At Weymouth, by the Fleet, in ditches communicating with 
the sea. Pulteney. By the river near Mutford Bridge, Suffolk. Mr.Wigg. 
Bot. Guide. Feckenham Bog, Worcestershire. Purton. 
P. July—Aug. E.)* 
DIGYNIA. 
ANTHOXANWHUM.t Cah husk two-val-ved, and one flower : 
JBloss. husk two-vaived, acuminate : Seed one. 
A. odora'tum. Panicle spiked, oblong-egg-shaped: florets longer than 
the awns, supported on short fruit-stalks. 
Gram. Pasc. — Curt. —(. Hort. Gram .— E. Bot. 647. E.) — Schreh. 5.— Mill. 
III. — Giseke. 2.— FI. Dan. 666— Stillingf. 1. out of bloss. — Mus. Bust. 
iv. 2. 3— J. B. ii. 466. 1— Anders. — Barr. 124, single spike good — C. B. 
44. 1— II. Ox. viii. 4. row. 2. 25. and 7. row. 3. 25 —Spike and fructifica¬ 
tion, Leers, 2. 1— Seguier. i. 4.2— Mont. 84. 
( Stems a foot high, slender, rigid, smooth, with one or two joints. E.) 
Blossom double. The outer entirely different from that of any other grass, 
its outside covered to near the top with stiff brown hairs adpressed. The 
inner, which Linnaeus calls the nectary, smooth, like the blossom of 
Poa. Spike not strictly so, the lower florets having short fruit-stalks. 
Filaments short when the blossom first opens, afterwards very long. 
Before the expansion of the blossom the anthers are partly inclosed in 
the nectary. Stem with two or three short leaves; joints shining. ( Husks 
the length only of the shorter valve of the calyx. Miss Giddy. E.) 
Spring-grass. Sweet-scented Vernal-grass. (Welsh: Melynicellt 
perarogl y gwanwyn. E.) Meadows and pastures, common : (attaining 
greatest perfection in deep and moist soils. E.) P. May—June4 
* (So plentiful on the moors near Cambridge, that it is commonly used in that 
town for lighting fires. Mr. Crowe, in FI. Brit. E.) It serves for thatching instead of 
straw, and often grows in such quantities in pools as to form floating islands. It is 
hurtful to cows. 
j- (From olv&os oivQwv, flower of flowers ; probably from its agreeable fragrance : while 
others derive the name from avQog, a flower, and favQog, yellow. E.) 
f This is one of our earliest grasses, and principally occasions the delightful smell 
of new mown hay. Mr. Curtis says that the leaves, rubbed betwixt the fingers, im¬ 
part a grateful odour. Boccone states that a distilled water may be prepared from it, 
as the vehicle of some perfumes. If it be gathered whilst in blossom, wrapped in a 
paper and carried in the pocket, it retains the smell of new mown hay for a long time. 
