532 PLANTS NEW TO THE BRITISH FLORA. 
rum auctorum." Reichenb. Ic. 1. f. 1. 1837.—39. Fl. Germ. 
excurs. 65. Fl. exsice. no. 102. 
L. remotum, Hoffm. D. fl. Ed. 2. 1. p. 63 (Koch). 
Has. With L. temulentum, amongst various crops, on culti- 
vated land about Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. 
Root annual, without sterile shoots. Stems solitary, or more 
or less branched below, erect, leaves glabrous. Spikelets pale- 
green, remote, about 7-11 flowered, overtopping the valve by 
about one third, or only equalling it; lower palea ovate-oblong ; 
awn very weak, one third the length of the palea, or none. 
Lolium linicola may be distinguished from ZL. perenne, L. and 
L. Italicum, Alex. Braun, (L. multiflorum, Lam. but not of Gau- 
din), by its want of sterile shoots about the root: from L. temu- 
lentum and its forms, it may be readily known by its smaller size 
and more numerous flowers. Z. arvense of British authors is, 
so far as I can learn, a state of L. temulentum; Y cannot call it a 
variety, having raised, from the seed of the short-awned plant, the 
long-awned state of Z. temulentum: the roughness of the stem 
appears also to be equally variable in cultivation. 
L. linicola has maintained its characters under cultivation for 
several years. 
It may be objected to Z. linicola, that it has been introduced 
with foreign seed, which may be true; the same objection must, 
however, apply with equal force to L. temulentum, and it is doubt- 
ful to what Flora they may be referred with the greatest propriety; 
but it does not seem reasonable to exclude such species as these 
altogether from the British Flora. 
L. linicola may be expected to be found a weed in those dis- 
tricts where Flax is cultivated. 
6. Triticum diforum, Brignoli; spica disticha, spiculis 2- rari- 
us 3-floris, valvis lanceolatis trinerviis, acuminatis, floribus arista- - 
tis, arista flore subtriplo breviore, axe scabriusculo, foliis glabris 
margine scabriusculis, radice fibrosa, —— 
“Triticum biflorum, Brignoli, fase. plant. rar. Forojul. an. 
1810." Koch, Synops. Flor. Germ. Ed. 2. v. 2. p. 953. Reichen- 
