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GRAMINEAE. 



VOL. I. 



2. Lolium multiflorum Lam. Awned or Italian 

 Rye-grass. Fig. 683. 



Lolium multiflonim Lam. Fl. Franc. 3: 621. 1778. 

 Lolium italicum A. Br. Flora 17: 259. 1834. 



Culms tufted, 2-3 tall. Sheaths usually shorter 

 than the internodes, smooth and glabrous; blades 4/-8' 

 long, ii"~4" wide, smooth and glabrous; spikes 8'-i2' 

 long; spikelets 20-30, the empty scale shorter than the 

 spikelet, 7"-io" long, strongly nerved, the flowering 

 scales bearing an awn equalling or shorter than itself. 



Iti fields and waste places, New York, New Jersey, 

 Missouri and Iowa. June-Aug. 



3- Lolium temulentum L. Darnel. Poison 

 Darnel. Ivray. Fig. 684. 



Lolium temulentum L. Sp. PI. 83. 1753. 



Glabrous. Culms 2-4 tall, erect, simple, smooth. 

 Sheaths overlapping or shorter than the internodes; 

 ligule i" long or less; blades 4'-io' in length, i"-3" 

 wide, smooth beneath, rough above; spike 4'-i2' in 

 length ; spikelets 4-8-flowered,5"-9" long, the strongly 

 nerved empty scale equalling or extending beyond 

 the obscurely nerved flowering scales, which are 

 awned or awnless. 



In waste places and cultivated grounds, locally natu- 

 ralized or adventive from Europe, New Brunswick to 

 Michigan. Georgia and Kansas. Abundant on the Pacific 

 Coast. Locally a troublesome weed. Bearded Darnel. 

 Sturdy Ryle. Tare. Drunk. Drawke. Dragge. Neale. 

 Cheat. June-Aug. 



102. LEPTURUS R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. i: 207. 1810. 



Usually low annual grasses, with narrow leaf-blades and strict or curved elongated slender 

 spikes. Spikelets i-2-flowered, sessile and single in alternate notches of the jointed rachis. 

 F.mpty scales 2, rarely i, narrow, rigid, acute, 5-nerved ; flowering scales much shorter, hyaline, 

 keeled, one side turned to the rachis. Palets hyaline, 2-nerved. Stamens 3, or fewer. Styles 

 short, distinct. Stigmas 2, plumose. Grain narrow, glabrous, free, enclosed in the scale. 

 [Greek, referring to the narrow spikes.] 



Species 5 or 6, natives of the Old World. Type 

 species : Lepturus repens R. Br. 



i. Lepturus filiformis (Roth) Trin. Slen- 

 der Hard-grass. Fig. 685. 



Rottbocllia filiformis Roth, Catal. i: 21. 1797. 

 L. filiformis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 123. 1820. 



Culms 3'-i2' long, decumbent, much branched, 

 smooth and glabrous. Sheaths loose, shorter 

 than the internodes; ligule i" long, auriculate; 

 blades i'-2' long, i" wide or less, usually invo- 

 lute, smooth beneath, rough above; spikes i'-6' 

 in length, slender, strict or curved ; spikelets 

 2"-2j" long; empty scales acute ; flowering scales 

 about 1 1" long, i-nerved. 



In waste places and brackish marshes, southern 

 Pennsylvania to Virginia, near or along the coast. 

 Adventive from Europe. Summer. 



