CHAPTER VII.
GRASSES GROUPED ACCORDING TO THEIR FLOWERS AND INFLORESCENCES.
I. Grasses with only one perfect flower in the spikelet.
(1) Inflorescence spikate[10].
A. Inflorescence a spike of simple spikelets.
Nardus stricta, L. A tough wiry tufted moor-grass, with setaceous leaves, secund spikelets with a single rudimentary glume, and a stiff simple hairy style. (Fig. [2].)
The much rarer Mibora verna about three inches or so high, and Lepturus, both with flat leaves, also come here.
Certain superficial resemblances in the habit or inflorescence in Festuca Myurus and rare forms like Spartina, may occasionally cause hesitation until the spikelets are examined.
B. Spike with sessile or sub-sessile tufts of three or more spikelets.
(a) A spike of tufted awned spikelets, in triplets at each notch of the rachis, and one or two of each triplet barren.
Hordeum.