Dr. Smith' j Objurations on the Britiji) Species c/Brotmis. 295 



No difficulty attends this fpecies, except what arifes from the 

 number of names that have been given it, owing to Linnaeus hav- 

 ing by accident called another B. ramofus ; fo that this requiring a 

 new name, every perfon gave one according to his fancy. It is 

 eafily diftinguifhed from the preceding, to which, though no one 

 has yet compared them, it is moft nearly a-kin ; but its annual, or 

 at moft biennial, pale fmooth root, broad uniform hairy leaves, and 

 branched drooping panicle, characterize it fumciently. Authors 

 have laboured to diftinguiih it from B. giganteus of Linnasus, fome 

 having moft carelefsly confidered them as the fame fpecies. In that 

 however the root is perennial, the fpikes fmall, florets fewer, nearly- 

 ovate, fcarcely carinated, their inner valve though rough not cili- 

 ated, and their arijla^ as Villars, well obferves, terminal, for which 

 two laft reafons particularly I have ventured to remove it to the 

 Feftucce. 



9. Bromus Jlcrilis. 

 Barren Brome-gra/s. 



B. panicula nutante fubfimplici, flofculis lanceolatis nervofis fulcatis, 



foliis pubefcentibus. 

 Bromus fterilis. Linn. Sp. PI. 113. Hudf. 50. With. 162. Relh.4.6. 



Sibth. 47. Curt. Lond.fafc. 1. /. 9. Mart. FL Rufl. t. 125. 



Leers 37. t. XI.JC 4. Ger. em. 76. 

 Feftuca avenacea fterilis elatior, feu Bromos Diofcoridis. Rait 



Syn. 412. 

 F. graminea annua fterilis, fpicis dependentibus. Mori/. Seft. 8. 



U 7./ 11. 

 In arvis, ruderatis et fepibus vulgaris. Fl. Junio, Julio. 



Radix 



