300 Dr. Smith'j Obfervations on the Britijh Species of Bromus. 



lion of a more perfeft one is not the work of a day. Indeed the 

 contemplation of them, and the certainty that in fo intricate an 

 undertaking fimilar errors are fcarcely to be wholly avoided, are 

 fometimes fufficient to daunt the moft ardent inveftigator, and 

 make him fenfible how much he himfelf may need the corredtion 

 and indulgence of future critics. 



ii. Bromus fylvaticus. 



Slender Wood Brome-grafs. 



B. fpica fimplici nutante fecunda, fpiculis feflilibus teretiufculis, 



ariftis gluma longioribus, foliis pilofis. 

 Bromus fylvaticus. PoIIicb. V. I. Il8. Pourret Adi. To/of. V* 3. 



308. 

 B. pinnatus. Fl. Dan. jr. 164. 

 B. gracilis. Weigel Obf. 15. /. l.f; It. 

 Feftuca fylvatica. Hudf. ed. 1. 38. With. 158. Relh. 44. Sikh. 46. 



Ligbtf. 103. Mart. FL Rujl. t. 114. Dickf H. Sice. 



fafc. 13. 9. 

 F. pinnata /3. iifr/^ 48. 

 Triticum n. 1432. Hall Hijl. V, 2. 2 13. 

 Gramen avenaceum dumetorum fpicatum. Bail Syn. 394. 



In dumetis, nemorofis, et fepibus freqnens. Fl. Julio. 



Radix perennis, fibrofa, caefpitofa, fufca. Culmi bipedales, ereai, 

 fimplices, teretes, foliofi, glabri, apice attenuati et inclinati. 

 Folia patentia, latiufcula, acuminata, rigidiufcula, laete viridia, 

 fcabra, nervofa, fubtus praecipue ftriata, magis vel minus pilofa. 

 Vagina firi&se, ftriatae, pilofae. Stipula brevis, obtufa, lacera. 

 Spica fimplex, nutans, fere triuncialis, rachi fubflexuosa, ftriata, 



fcabra, 



