2 §4 Dr. Smith*j Obfervations on the Briti/h Species of Br omits* 



There is certainly great affinity between this fpecies and the pre- 

 ceding, and they have been accordingly confounded, not only by 

 Scopoli and Hudfon, who have united feveral more diftiiict fpecies 

 into one, under the name of polymorphic, but alfo by mod other 

 authors. Scheuchzer and the accurate Weigel have however dif- 

 tinguifhed them, and the characters above given feem fufficient. 

 The B. multiflorus has more numerous florets, more clofely fet, and 

 more frequently downy, though not invariably fo.. Both kinds, 

 with fmooth glumes, are confounded in the collections of Buddie 

 and Sherard, under the fynonym of Ray which belongs to the for- 

 mer ; as they are in the herbarium of Bobart under Morif Sect. 8.. 

 t. y. f. 16; but in the lad-mentioned the glumes of B. multiflorus t 

 though not downy all over, are ronglvon, the keel. 





3/ 'Bromu's mollis*. 



Soft Brome-grafs. i! 



B. panicula erecta coarctata; peduneulis ramofis, fpicnlis ovatis*, 



floiculis imbricatis depreflis nervofis pubefcentibus. 

 Bromus mollis. Linn. Sp. PL 112. Curt, Lond.fafc, 1. /. 8. Mart. 



Fl. Rufl* t. 99. Rclh. 44. Sibth. 47. Leers 37, /. 11. f. r. 



Weigel Obf. 7. /. i.f. 4. Schreb. Gram. 60. t. 6,f, j 9 £* 

 B. Linn. Hort. Cliff. 25, ex Herb. Cliff. 

 B. polymorph us «. Lludf. 48. var. 1. With. 159, 

 B. hordeaceus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 77. 

 B. n. 1504* Hall. Hifl. F,i. 236.. 



Feftuca avenacea nil Cut a, paniculis minus fparfis. Raii Syn. 41 j. 

 Gramen avenaceum pratenfe, gluma breviore fquamosa et villosa., 



Morif. Seft,8.t,j,f 18, 



|3* Bromus- 



