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Gramen bromoides pratenfc, foliis prater culmum anguftiflimis, 

 rara lanugine villofus. Schcuchx. Agr. 255. /. 5./ 13. From 

 a fpccimen named by Scheuchzer himfelf in the Sherardian 



collection. 



G. bromoides paniculatum, foliis et culmo villofis. Scheuchz. Agr. 



257. according to the opinion of Sherard. 

 G. quod Feflnca pratenfis lanuginofa C. B. Vaill. Paris. 93. /. 18./. 2. 



The fynonyms very much confufed. 

 G. avenaceum glabrum, panicula purpuro-argentea fplendente. 



Mor. V. 3. 213. n. 20. Herb. Bobarh 

 G. loliaceum, locuftis longis ariftatis. Mont. Prod. %$. f. 2. Herb, 

 Sherard. But the fynonyms of Ray and Morifon quoted by 

 Monti are wrong. 

 G. fparteum, longa et fpicata panicula, Lolii utriculis, Feftuae 

 potius, majus. Barrel. Ic. t. 13./. 1. 



In pafcuis arenofis, creta fubftratis. Fl. Julio. 

 In the hedges beyond Botley near Oxford. Bobart. Ditchley 

 "'Park. Mr. Woodward. Holkham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. 



Radix perennis, fibrofa, casfpitofa, fibris villofis, fufcis. Culmus fere 

 tripedalis, eredus, ftri&us, (implex, teres, glaber (rarius pubef- 

 cens), ultra medium foliofus, geniculis circiter quatuor. Folia 

 lineari-lanceolata, acutiufcula, itriata, laete viridia, fcabra ; radn 

 calia anguftifiima, pilis longis albis fparfis adfcendentibus ciliata, 

 fubinde involuta. Vagina filiate, glabra. Stipula brevifTima, 

 erofa. Panicula erect a, ramis erect is, fcabris, numero et lon°i- 

 tudine variis, fimplicibus, rarius bifloris. Spicule lineari-oblonga?, 

 compreflae, ere&ae, purpurafcentes, vel glabrae vel tomentofa?. 

 Gluma calycinai lanceolate, acutae, earinatae; interiore majore, 

 tnnervi. Flofculi 5 ad 9, imbricati, lanceolati, compreflb-teretiuf- 



Ppi cull 



