5. Be inermis Leyss. Common Brovegrass, Smooth Brome, Hungarian Brome. 
Plents perennial with rhizomes; culms rather stout, erect, 40-70 cm. tall, or 
sometimes taller; sheaths smooth, overlapping, especially the lower ones; blades 
flat, scabrous, 10-25 om. long, 4-12 mne wide; panicles open, 10-20 om. long, 
the branches in rather distant fascicles; spikelets 2-3 om. long; glumes blunt, 
scabrous on the nerves, the first 5-8 ma. long, l-nmerved, the second 7-10 mm. 
long, S-nerved; lemmas glabrous or more or less pubescent all over the back on 
the basal portion, 10-12 mn. long, awnless eo short-awned. 
Very robust specimens may be larger throughout. Introduced from 
Europe and cultivated as a forage grass. Sometimes escaped in waste 
places, Coeur d'Alene; Kaniksu National Forest; Fox Cr, 
6. Be vulgaris (Hook.) Shear. —~———» Plants perennial; culms slender, 
erect, usually solitary, 50-150 cm. tall, pilose at and below the nodes; sheaths, 
especially the lower, pilose with spreading or reflexed hairs; ligules prominent, 
truncate, 2-35 mm. long; blades flat, erect or ascending, somewhat flexous, 
10-25 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, sparsely pilose above, scabrous and sonetimes 
pilose below; panicles narrow, nodding, 10-20 om. long, the branches flemous, 
in distant fascicles, the lower 3-6 cm. long, seldan longer, bearing one or 
i. sauetimes two spikelets; spikelets narrow, 2-3 cm. long; glumes lanceolate 
@ acuminate, the first l-nerved, 6-3 mu. long, the second 3-nerved 8-10 mn. long; 
lemmas narrow, lanceolate, 10-12 mn. long, sparsely villous on the margins and ; 
sometimes all over the basal portion, the upper portion glabrous or nearly so; ; 
avms more than 5 mm.e, usually about 7 mn. long. 
Rocky woods and hillsides, and ee shady ravines. 
7e 5. ciliatus Lk ———>Plants perennial; culms usually single, slender, 
erect, 60-120 cm. talljgglabrous or scabrous especially below the panicles; nodes 
appressed retrorsely pilose: sheaths glabrous to rather densely retrorsely pilose, 
the lower ones becoming reddish browm; blades flet, lax, pilose above, scabrous 
beneath, 10-50 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide; panicles nodding, 10-20 cm. long, the 
branches flexuous, scabrous, naked below, the lower ones as much as 12 cme 
long; 
q spixelets on flexuous pedicels, 15-30 mm. long; first glume acuminate, scabrous, 
ienerved, 7 to 8 mms long, ths second obtuse, a little longer than the first, 
d-nerved; lemmas about 12 mm. long, o-nerved, densely villous on the margins and 
pilose on the midnerve below, otherwise glabrous or nearly so; avms less than 
5 mile long. 
