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Root creeping. Straw from six to twelve inches high; smooth. Leaves on 
leaf-stalks, expanding, bare. Panicle oblong, the lowermost branches 
sometimes a little expanding. Fiords from three to seven or eight; 
rather blunt, smooth. Huds. Leaves rolled in so as to resemble rushes. 
Panicle purplish, Bay. ( Straw very much reclining. Woodw. Whole 
plant slightly glaucous. E.) Panicle in the tig. of FI. Dan. too much 
expanded. Blossom inner valve very minutely serrulated. Has been 
supposed to b e Festuca Jluitans changed by a maritime situation ; but this 
is not probable, for the outer and larger valve of the blossom in this 
plant wants the ribs which are so strongly marked in F. Jluitans, the 
inner valve wants the open cleft at the end, besides other differences; I 
have examined F. Jluitans whilst growing in the salt marshes at Lyming- 
ton, and found it vary but little from that growingin inland places. Afzelius 
believes it to be F. adscendens of Retz. (Varying in height from two inches 
near the sea, to fifteen farther from it. Rev. H. Davies. E.) 
Creeping Sea Meadow Grass. (Welsh: Gweun-wellt arfor. E.) Sea 
coast, frequent. Salt marshes, Norfolk and Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. 
On the river side between Bristol and the Hot wells. Mr. S wayne. Near 
the canal from Droitwich to the Severn. Mr. Baker. North shore, near 
Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Shores of Tyne and Wear, near the sea ; on 
rocks at Dunstanburgh Castle. Mr. Winch. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
Isles of Oransa and Skye, and Loch-broom. Lightfoot. E.) 
P. June—Oct. 
P. compres'sa. (Panicle unilateral, rather dense; stem compressed; 
root creeping ; spikets egg-oblong ; florets connected' by a web. 
E. Bot. 365. E.)— FI. Dan. 742— Vaill. 18. 5— Leers 5. 4— Mont. 10. 
Floi'ets generally six in each calyx. Linn. Root somewhat creeping. 
Spikets almost sessile, near together. Leers. Much larger than those of 
P. pratensis. Dickenson. About a foot high. Straw trailing, then 
ascending, smooth. Leaves nearly smooth. Panicle two inches long, 
slender. Spikets mostly three or four-flowered. Blossom, rarely woolly 
* at the base; (and so likewise intimates Schrader: though Sinclair and 
other authors suppose it universal.” Florets connected at the base by 
a mass of white folded threads, as fine and soft as a spider’s web, which 
may be drawn out to a considerable length. Sm. E.) 
(Flat-stalked Meadow Grass. Walls, house-tops, and other very dry 
places. P. June.* 
(Mr. Sinclair describes a Var. erecta, figured, in Hort. Gram. Culms more 
upright, less compressed, and produced in greater quantities. Leaves 
somewhat glaucous, more upright. E.) 
P. glau'ca. Panicle open: spikets mostly three-flowered : florets taper¬ 
ing to a point, hairy at the base without a web: leaves awl- 
shaped : (sheath-scales very short. Sm. E.) 
FI. Dan. 964<—(E. Bot. 1720. 
Florets without any complicated web at their base. E. Bot. E.) May be 
distinguished from other species at a distance, by its glaucous colour. 
Vahl. About ten inches high. Stem smoothish. leaves rough at the 
edges. Panicle two inches long, hardly one broad, few-flowered, but lit¬ 
tle branched, three or four florets in each spiket. 
* (Dr. Anderson considers this species more valuable than its congeners. Its leaves 
being longer and more abundant than those of P. trivialis , it better deserves cultivation. 
1 hough early and nutritive, the produce is deficient in quantity. Hort. Gram. E.) 
