Molinia
(named in honour of J. Molina, a writer upon Chilian plants). SYN. Enodium. ORD. Gramineae. A monotypic genus. The species is a rather tall, tufted, hardy, perennial grass. It will thrive on wet, bleak moors, where the better sorts of grasses do not succeed.
M. caerulea (bluish). A., spikelets reddish, violet-purple, or green, few, narrow; flowering glumes deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, subacute; empty glumes shorter; anthers violet-brown; panicle lin. to 12in. long, stout, much contracted; rachis flexuous, compressed; branches erect. July and August. L. smooth, rigid, hairy at base, the tips very slender; sheaths smooth. Stems 1ft. to 3ft. high, terete, striate, with but one node, and that towards the base, naked above. Europe (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 1747.) The variegated form, M. c. variegate, is an excellent bedding plant.