Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

96 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA,
Mellc-Grafs. jinglis.
In fhady woods not uncommon : it's variety with
flowers nearly feffile, growing in a fpike inftead
of a panicle. I oblerv'd in Lord Breadalbane's
woods at y^rdmadd., in Nethcr-Lorn, 1 he ca-
lyces of both are of an auburn color, and the;
fiowers within them green. % . VI-VIII.
(.vriiJca 2. M. panicula coardata, floribus cylindricis. Lin^
Mantifs.p. 325. Aira c(srulea Sp.pL 95. {Oed.
Dan. /. 239. Moris. Hifi. Ox.f. 8. /. 5./. 22.)
Purple Mellc-Grafs. Anglis. Pund-Glafs. Gaiilis.
In wet, moorifh, and barren ground frequent. %i
Vill.
This grafs is readily diilinguiflied by it's black pur-
ple panicle : it has a bulbofe root, blue anthers,
and a purple piftil, with two or three flowers in
a calyx.
The fifhermen in the ifle of Skie make ropes for
their nets of this grafs, which they find by ex-
perience will bear the water well without rotting.
P O A. Cren. pi. 83.
Cal. bivalvis, muldfloriis. Sptciila ovata •, valvuli^
rpargine fcaWiofls acutiufculis.
alp'na i. VOh panicula difflifa ramoflflima, fpiculis fcxfloris
cordatis. Sp. pi. gg. {ejus. Veritas vivipara
Scheucb. Iter Jlp. p. 38. t. 4. /. 2. ^ Agrcjio-
graph, p. 22. /. 4./. 14.)
Alpine Meadow-Grafs. Anglis.
On the fides cf Craig-chalUach, above Finlarig, m
Brcadalbanc. Mr. Stuart. %. VI.
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