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LEERSIA, oryzoides.
European, Leersia. Cut-grass.,
TJUAND.RI/l Dujynia.
Gen. Char. Spikelets 1-flowered. Cal. 0. Cor.
of 2 compressed herbaeeo-membranous valves of
nearly equal length ; exterior one much' wider,
boat-shaped. Seed free within the dried corolla.
Spec. Char. Panicle effuse ; ramuli not appyessed.
Floret semi-elliptical, strongly ciliated, trian-
drous. Leaves very rough. Ligule short.
Syn. . Leersia oryzoides. Swartz Prod. Veg. Ind.
Occ. 21. FI. Ind. Occ. v. 1. 129. t. 4. (flower.)
Willd. Sp. PI. 325. Pers. Syn. v. 1; 73.’ Kunth
Enum. PI. v. 1. 5. Host Gram. Austr. v. 1. 27.
t. 35. FI. Dan. t. \ 744. Schrad. FI. Germ. v. 1.
176. Dec. FI. Fr. v. 3/ 11. Gaud. Agrost. Helv.
v. 1. 3,, FI. Helv. v. 1. 141. Bert. FI., Ital. v. 1.
335.. Koch Sym ed.2. 900. Reich. FI. Ex. v. li
33: Agrost. Germ. f. 1495. Nees ab Esenb.
Gen. Germ. v. 1. t. 1.
Asprella oryzoides. Lam. III. 167. Rom. et Schul.
v. 2. 226. Rafn Danm. og. Holst. FL v. 1. 503.
Homalocenchrus. “ Mieg Act. Helv. 4^.317.”
Hall. Stirp. Helv. v. 2. 202.
H. oryzoides. Poll. FI. Pal. v. 1. 52. Allion. FI.
Pedem. v.; 2. 232.:
Phalaris oryzoides. Linn: Sp. PI. 81. Schreb.
Gras. v. 2. 6. t. 22. Krock. FI.' Sites, v. 1. 82.
t. 18.
Ehrhartia clandestina. Weber (nominally Wiggers)
Prim. FI. Holsat. 63.
D is c o v e r e d for the first time in Britain, late in September
1844, at Henfield, Sussex, where it grows in several