Z$2- Dr. Ssuxii 's- Obfervdt'ms rm the Bri/j/h Speucs. o/B/omu^ 



Bromus fecalinus. Linn. Sp. PL 1 12. 



B. polymorph us y. Hudf. 49. var. 2. With. 159, 



B. vitiofus. JFeigelObf. 4. t. j.f. 2. 



Fcfluca avcnacca, fpicis habitiorihus, glumis glabris. Rati Spn^ 



ed. 2.. 261. ed. 3. 4! A. 

 F. graminea, glumis glabris. Schcucbz. Agrojl. 251. /. 5./. ro. 

 Gramen avenaceum . fcgetale me jus, gluma* turgidiore. Morifi.. 



Seel. 8. £.7./ 16. 



In arvis minus frequenter. Fl. Julio: 



Near Edwinsford,, Caermarthenihire, among the winter corn.. 

 Sir J. Banks, Burt. Fields in Suffex.. Sir. T. Frankland, Bart. 



Radix fibrofa, annua, Cuhnus tripedalis, foliofus, erect us, firnplex,, 

 teres, glaber. Folia: linearia;. fupra, margineque pr;ecipue, 

 pilofa ;. fobtus fcabra. ^■//w^laeviufcnla; Siipnla brevis, erofa,. 

 pilofa. Faniculci vix lemjpedalis, patens.;, ramis, femi-verticil- 

 latis, re&iufculis, . angulatis,- fcabris, longitudine inasqualibus,.. 

 plerumque fimplicibus unifioris. Spicule ovatae, fere elliptical . 

 compreffo-planse, flofculis 9 ad 12, bafi remotis, unde rachis- 

 flexuofa, glabra, tota in confpe&um venit. Calyx incequalis, 

 muticus, glumis ellipticis, glabris, trinerviis, margine rnembra- 

 naceis. Flofculi teretiufculi, glabri (rarius pubefcentes), afc 

 bido-virefcentes, nitidi ; gluma exterior elliptica, turgida, nee 

 deprefla, obfolete feptemnervia, margine apicem versus parum 

 membranacea, fub apice ariftata; arijla re&iufcula, fcabra, 

 crluma brevior: gluma interior longe anguftior et tenuior, con- 

 cava, mutica, margine pecYmato-ciliata. Semen cylindricum, 

 fupra fulco exaratum. 



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