292 Br. Smith'* Obfervations on the Britijh Species of Bromus. 



culi, fubansrulati, carinati, obfolete nervofi, carina fcabri ; afiftlf 

 lonQ;itudine vix glumarurn, pariim infra apicem membranaceum 

 cxortis, reftis, fcabris. G/uf/ue mienores apicem versus minute 

 pe&inato-ciliatae ciliis adfcendentibus, minus quam in maxima 

 parte Bromorum confpicuis. Anther <z croceae. Semen lineari- 

 oblongum, fupra fulcahim, apice villoium. 



The fpecimen of this Bromus, that ranks fir ft in authority, exifts 

 in tbe Sherardian herbarium, and is thus infcribed in Sherard's hand : 



u Feftuca avenacea fterilis, fpicis ereftis, p. Bobart. Synopf. 

 App. This was firft found by me, and given to Mr. Bobart. Folia 

 inferiora pilis longis obfita." 



Under thefe very words it appears in the fecond edition of 

 Ray's Synopjis ; but, in the third, Dillenius has added fynonyms 

 of Plukenet and Morifon, which belong to a widely different 

 plant B. muralis of Hudfon, madriienfts of Linnaeus, diandrus of 

 Curtis, under which laft name I fhall prefently defcribe it. Ml*. 

 Hudfon however copies thofe fynonyms under his B. ereftus, adding^ 

 with a query indeed, B. racemofus of Linnasus ; fo that he includes 

 under cre&us three fpecies, and, if his variety /3 be the real arvenfis* 

 even four. Other Botanifts in the time of Dillenius feem to have 

 confounded B. ereclus and diandrus; and that circumftance perhaps 

 led him into the fame error. The latter fpecies in Buddie's her- 

 barium has the denomination Fefuca avenacea Jlerilts fpicis ereclis, 

 D. Bobart, which we have juft proved to belong to the former, 

 while there are three mod diftincl: grafles, one of them B. ere&ui 

 with downy glumes, in the fame herbarium under the true fyno- 

 nym of B. diandrus, as will be (hewn prefently, not one of which 

 is the real diandrus, Buddie has .alfo the eretlus in another place, 

 with fmooth glumes, with the fynonym in Ray's Synopf : j> which 



belongs 



