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T R I T I C U M junceütri.
Sea Rujhy ÏVheal-grafs.
TR1ANDRIA Digynia.
G en. Char. Cal. of 2 valves, folitary, many-flowered*
upon a zigzag toothed rachis.
S p e c . Char. Calyx blunt, five-flowered. Leaves
rolled inward, fharp-pointed.
Syn. Triticum junceum. Linn. Sp. P i. 128. Sm.
FI. Brit. 127. Hudf. 58. With. 173. Hull. 28.
Dickf. JFÏ. Sicc. fafc . 6 . 9.
Gramen maritimum, fpica loliacea, foliis pungentibus,
noftras. Dill, in Raii Syn. 391.
N o t uncommon in the loofe fand of the fea-coaft, which
its long tough creeping roots, throwing out numerous woolly
fibres, help to confine and keep ftationary; to which purpofé
this grafs co-opérates with Carex arenaria, Elymus arenarius,
and Eejiuca rubra. It flowers in July.
The whole plant is, very glaucous; the lower part of thé
Item is however of a more or lefs vivid violet hue, and very
fmooth or Alining. Leaves rigid and fliarply pungent, perfectly
fmooth at the back 5 their upper fide marked with numerous
longitudinal rough furrows. Stipula very fliort. Spike folitary,
ereft, ftraight and ftiff, much broader in proportion to
its length than that o f any other Britifli Triticum.* and confiding
o f numerous alternate flat fpikelets, of 3 or 6 florets each,
perfectly fmooth and beardlefs. The glumes are furrowed and
blunt; the interior valve of the corolla flat, and fringed*
The two varieties, Raii Syn. 39Ï, n. 5 and 6, provej by
original fpecimens, to differ very little from this. A maritime
variety of T. repens, Raii Syn. 390, n. 3, is often taken for
T. junceum-, and Mr. Relhan, anxious as every true natural id
ought to be for the promotion of truth, has authorized us to fay
that his T. junceum, p. 53, is no other. Some able botanifls
have on the other hand taken this variety, and others the true
T. junceum, for Elymus arenarius i