. Handbook of grasses, treating of their structure, classification, geographical distribution and uses, also describing the British species and their habitats. Grasses. 40 BRITISH SPECIES of two kinds, paired, one of each pair 2- or 3-flowered, the other sterile ; glumes of the sterile spikelets terminating in an awn their own length ; flowering glumes similarly awned. Annual, flower- ing June, July. FesUcca ovina, var. glaiica, common on sea banks, is an in- tensely glaucous form with short, rigid, recurved leaves ; flowering glumes awned. Bromus mollis, var. hordaceus, is a dwarf prostrate f
. Handbook of grasses, treating of their structure, classification, geographical distribution and uses, also describing the British species and their habitats. Grasses. 40 BRITISH SPECIES of two kinds, paired, one of each pair 2- or 3-flowered, the other sterile ; glumes of the sterile spikelets terminating in an awn their own length ; flowering glumes similarly awned. Annual, flower- ing June, July. FesUcca ovina, var. glaiica, common on sea banks, is an in- tensely glaucous form with short, rigid, recurved leaves ; flowering glumes awned. Bromus mollis, var. hordaceus, is a dwarf prostrate form with glabrous spikelets { not hairy or downy), growing in dry and sandy places by the sea. Var. Lloydiamis, found on the shores of the Channel Islands, has the awns bent outward in fruit. Festuca elaiior, var. arundinacea, with scabrid leaf-sheaths and the branches of the panicle spread- ing in fruit, is found on moist, sandy banks by the sea. Agrostis alba, var. stolonifera, Fiorin-grass, occurs chiefly on sea- banks ; it has prostrate stems, which root freely at the nodes, and the panicle is dense, lobed, and dull green. Growing in salt marshes, on the banks of tidal rivers, and in muddy waste places by the sea :— Glyceria maritima, the Creeping Sea Sweet-grass, is frequent on all the British coasts, and grows in abundance. Rootstock densely tufted, producing numerous trailing leafy stolons, the leaves of which are fleshy, closely involute, and end- ing in a hard point. Culms about a foot high. Panicle rather one- sided and contracted, with short ascending branches, 2-3 at the lower insertions, pale green or pur- plish on one side, glaucous. Spike- lets adpressed to the branches, about \ inch long, containing usually five, but sometimes as many as eight flowers ; flowering glumes with a scarious blunt tip, the dorsal nerve reaching it, but not excurrent. Perennial, flowering in July. Var. G. hispida has rough panicle-branches; var. G. riparia is a slender form with
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