290 Dr. SmithV Obfervatlons on the Britifi Species ofBromus, 



patentibus, numerofis, fimplicibus et ramofis, fcabris. Spicalce 

 ovatolanceolatie, erectiufculas, demiim nutantes, nitidse, purpu- 

 reo varise, plerumque glabra?, fubinde oculo armato pubefcentes. 

 Gluma; calycina valde inaequales, lanceolatae, acutae, carinatae, 

 nervofae, margine membranaceae. Flofculij ad 10, arete imbricati, 

 elliptici, depreflb-concavi, carina fcabri, margine membranacei, 

 nervis duobus approximatis longitudinalibus lateralibus ; ariftis 

 gluma plerumque longioribus, parum infra apicem membra- 

 naceum e carina elongata exortis, reclis, fubulatis, fcabris : gluma 

 interiores minores, encrviae, obtufae, muticae, margine pectinatae. 

 Semen apice villofum. 



There is fome doubt whether Mr. Hudfon really knew this grafs, 

 or whether what he took for B. arvenfts of Linnseus is merely a 

 variety, as he made it, of his B. eredtus ; and this point can never be 

 determined. The two fpecies have lefs refemblance or affinity 

 than moft other Bromi, and c©uld furely never be confounded. 



7. Bromus ere dim. 

 Upright Perennial Bronte -grafs. 



B. panicula erecta ; pedunculis fubfimplicibus, flofculis lanceolatis 

 teretiufculis, foliis radicalibus anguftiflimis ciliato-pilofis. 



Bromus ere&us. Hudf. 49. ed. 1. 39. With. 160. Sibtk.Afl. Relh. 

 Suppl. 2. 8. Eng. Bot. t. 471. 



B. agreftis. Allion. Ped. V. 2. 249. 



B. perennis. Villars Dauph. V. 2. 122. 



B. n. 1507. Hall. Htft. V. 2. 237. D avail. 



Feftuca avenacea fterilis fpicis ereclis. Rait Syn. ed. 1. 237. ed, 2. 

 261, ed, 3. (exclufis fynonymis) 413. 



Gramen 



