288 Dr. Smiths Obfrvations on the Britijh Species of B ramus* 



5. Bromus fquarrofus. 



Corn Brome-grafs. 



B. panicula nutante ; pedunculis fimplicibus, fpiculis ovatis duo- 

 decim floris, floiculis imbricatis depreffis, ariftis divaricatis. 



Bromus fquarrofus. Linn. Sp. PL 112. Hudf. 49. With. i6o 

 Vi liars Dauph. V. 2. 1 1 5. 



Feftuca graminea, glumis vacuis. Scheucbz. Agr. 251. t. $.f. II. 



Gramen phalaroides majus acerofum, nutante fpica. Barrel. Ic. 

 t. 24./ I. 



In arvis Anglise auftraliores. Hudf. Fl. Julio. 

 Radix fibrofa, parva, annua. Culmus pedalis, (implex, glaber, flri- 

 atus, foliofus. Folia et vagina pubefcunt, villis breviffimis deflexis. 

 Panicula pauciflora, pedunculis fecundis, fimplicibus, compreffis, 

 apice incrafTatis. Spicule omnium maxima?, ovatae, tumidae, 

 nitidae, flofculis 12 ad 16, arete imbricatis, deprefTo-concavis 

 glabris, fubinde fcabriufculis. Calyx inaequalis, nervofus, muticus. 

 Gluma corollina exteriores calyce parum majores, multinerviae, apice 

 bipartite, ariftis fubulatis, fcabris, recurvato-divaricatis, longitu- 

 dine glumarum; valvula interiores longe minores, ciliis raris pec- 

 tinate. Semen ellipticum, depreflb-concavum, corollas adnatum 

 apice villofum. 



This defcription is taken from feveral very excellent fpecimens in 

 the Linnaean collection, for I have never feen any of Britifh growth. 

 It owes its place, therefore, in the lift of Englifh plants, entirely to 

 Mr. Hudfon, as Dr. Withering alfo remarks, and I am not without 

 a fufpicion of his having miftaken the true B. fecalinus for this 

 fpecies. 



6. Bromus 



