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TRIANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Elymbs. 
Schreb. 40—( Hort . Gram. E. Bot. 1672. E.)— Gmel. i. 25— Clus. ii. 21.2— 
C. B. 68. 2 —Ger. 23— C. B. Th. 14 —Park, 1277. 1— J. B. ii. 478. 2— 
II. Ox. viii. 2. 11. 
(Stems three or four feet high, reed-like, hollow. Stipula very short, by 
which the plant may readily be distinguished from Arundo arenaria. 
E. Bot. E.) Spike upright, long, woolly (six to twelve inches long, 
glaucous. E.) Little spikes two together, straight, containing two 
florets, awnless. Leaves like those of an Arundo , glaucous, or whitish ; 
rolled inwards and sharp-pointed. Linn. 
Upright Sea Lyme Grass. (Starr. E.) Sea coast, in loose sand. (Isle 
of Bute; and in Devonshire. Hudson. At Wells and Happisburgh, 
Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Sea coast, four miles east of St. Andrew’s. Mr. 
Mackay. FI. Brit. Common on the east and north coast of Sutherland, 
and shores of Caithness. Hooker. Coast near Sunderland. Mr. Winch. 
Abbey Holm and Allonby, Cumberland. Hutchinson. Bundorn and 
Aranmore, Donegal. E. Murphy, Esq. E.) P. July—Aug.* 
(E. genicula'tus. Spike bent perpendicularly downwards, loose: 
calyx bristle-shaped, spreading, longer than the spikets: leaves 
with a spinous point. 
E. Bot. 1586. 
Boot perennial, downy. Plant glaucous, larger than the foregoing, but 
more slender. Leaves hard and rigid, long, narrow, involute, furrowed 
above, smooth beneath, terminating in a sharp spine. Stem round, very 
smooth, three or four feet high. Spike simple, loose, a foot and a half 
to two feet in length, bent down at an acute angle about the second or 
third spiket. Spikets four-flowered. Florets very distant, sharp-pointed, 
downy. Common receptacle sometimes naked and elongated at the base. 
FI. Brit. 
Pendulous Sea Lyme Grass. Three-jointed Lyme Grass. Found 
in marshes near Gravesend by Mr. Dickson; and first distinguished from 
E. arenarius by Mr. Curtis. P. July. E.)t 
E. europie'us. Spike upright: spikets two flowered, as long as the 
calyx. 
Scheuch. Pr. 1. 1— (E. Bot. 1317. E .)—Park. 1144. 7. (1)— Mont. 94. 
{Stem erect, two feet high, [striated. Leaves spear-shaped, many-ribbed, 
flat, acute, rough on both sides and at the edges. Spike two or three 
inches long, close, green: its main stalk angular, furrowed, flexuose. 
Flowers three together at each notch. Each calyx-valve tipped with 
a straight rough awn, half its own length. Florets often solitary, never 
more than two. Outer valve of the blossom ribbed, rough, especially in 
* It resists the spreading of the loose sand on the sea shore. Is it not capable of 
being formed into ropes as is Stipa tenacissima in Spain ? Cows, horses, and goats 
eat it; sheep refuse it. (Mr. Salisbury states that the foliage makes excellent mats 
and baskets. Mr. Sinclair informs us that this grass may be considered the sugar-cane 
of England, one-third of its nutritive produce consisting of saccharine matter. What 
sand Arundo arenaria arrests and collects, E. arenarius secures. They often grow in 
company, and conjointly effect much benefit. Penal statutes have been enacted both 
by English and Scotch Parliaments for the protection of these plants. In Iceland the 
seeds are used to make bread. E.) 
+ (This species contains but a small portion of saccharine matter. The root is power¬ 
fully creeping, and the foliage tough and coarse. It seems but little adapted for 
useful purposes. Hort. Gram. E.) 
