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Rh stiff reed-like flower-stems spring to the height of from twelve to eighteen inches, and bear a panicle compact when in flower, but afterwards, becoming loose and spreading by the elongation of the flower-stalks: its numerous spikets are composed of from seven to eleven florets terminated, by very short awns. Glaucus green is constantly the colour of the whole Plant. Festuca rubra, which it resembles more than any other Grass, has a much slenderer flower stem, upright panicle, fewer spikets, flowers from five to seven, glumes terminated by long awns; and, wherever we have observed it, is constantly tinged with a red hue.

All the habitats of Festuca rubra, p. 11. belong to Festuca glauca, with the exception of the coast on Holy Island, N.

No. 223. .—Turner's Botanist's Guide, p. 469. This Plant never exceeds three inches in height; its stems are erect, unbranched, stiff, bearing numerous sessile flowers. The segments of the corolla are obtuse, and the flowers much larger and more beautiful than those of Chironia centaurium, and are arranged in a dense corymbus. The leaves are numerous, three-nerved, between oblong and linear, the radicle not exceeding the floral, or those Rh