‡‡ _Small land-plants not more than a foot high, with short, stiff, somewhat crowded panicles, and spikelets containing 6-8 flowers._ ≡ _Maritime perennial with creeping stolons, and about a foot high: panicle somewhat open below._ _Poa maritima_, Huds. ≡≡ _Inland plant with secund panicle, about six inches high._ _P. rigida_, L. The rare _P. procumbens_, Curt. and _P. bulbosa_, L. also come here, as well as starved forms of _P. compressa_, L. Some forms of _Festuca elatior_, var. _pratensis_, Huds. growing in dry situations may give trouble, and will have to be examined with the flora. See also note, p. 109. †† Spikelets awned. ⊙ _Awns bristle-like and terminal on the paleæ: flowers about six in each spikelet. Leaves setaceous. Panicle secund._ ≡ _Awns long and bristle-like. An annual weed._ _Festuca Myurus_, L. ≡≡ _Awns very short, or merely the drawn out points of the paleæ. Perennial._ _F. ovina._ The rare _F. uniglumis_, Soland., and some other varieties may also come here. Some forms of _F. ovina_ are viviparous (see p. 134), and several varieties have to be distinguished. ⊙⊙ _Awns hair-like and dorsal on the paleæ. Flowers two in each spikelet. Annual, six inches or less in height._ _Aira præcox_, L. The rare _A. canescens_, L. also comes here: its awn is jointed and with a minute tuft of hairs about the middle. (ii) _Panicle lax and open, the fine hair-like branches spreading widely during florescence, or even pendent or drooping._ * Spikelets awnless. † A small aquatic grass with prostrate habit and two-flowered spikelets with broad truncate glumes and paleæ. _Catabrosa aquatica_, Beauv. (Fig. 4). The two-flowered spikelets distinguish it at once from _Glyceria aquatica_, to say nothing of its softer and smoother texture and small stature. _Poa trivialis_ may have two flowers, but it is an erect meadow-grass, with keeled and pointed glumes and paleæ. _Aira_ and _Agrostis_ are awned, or differ entirely in habit. †† Spikelets with at least three or four, but usually more flowers. ⊙ _A perennial field-grass with few large, compressed, bluntly triangular or ovate spikelets, dangling at the end of capillary branchlets; with membranous, loosely imbricated, concave and inflated paleæ and glumes, and 6-8 flowers._ _Briza media_, L. The much rarer _B. minor_, L. is an annual and smaller.