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Perennials with flat blades and flattened terminal spikes. spiesieun 
several flowered, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between 
the florets, sessile, solitary, placed edgewise to the rachis; first glume 
wanting, the second turned toward the outside, about as long as the second 
floret, strongly 5-S-nerved; lemmas acute or obtuse 5-7-nerved, awnless, 
o Glumes much shorter than the svikelet 1. Le perenne 
© Glumes exceeding the florets 2e Le temlentumn 
1. Le perenne Le Perennial Ryegrasse Culms erect or decumbent at the 
base, 20-60 cm, tall; blades flat, lax, smooth, glossy, especially when 
young, 5-10 cm. long, 2-5 mm, wide; spikes curved or nodding, about 10 
em. long; spikelets divergent, about 1 cm, long; glumes blunt, faintly 
nerved, a little more than half the length of the spikelet; lemmas 
lanceolate, awnless, 5-6 mn, longe 
4 veed in waste places; introduced from Surope, Coeur d'Alene, 
Rust 315. . 
Le multiflorum Lam. Italian Ryegrass, Differs from L. perenne in being 
more robust in habit and in having avmed lemmas; andy nay also occur in our 
region. 
2e Le temulentum Le Darnel. Annual; culms stiffly erect, 60-90 cm, tall; 
blades firm, flat, 6-6 mm, wide, glabrous; spikes 15-20 cm, long, the 
axis thick, angular, scabrous; glumes 15-20 ma, long, abruptly acute, 
slabrous; lower lemma about 8 mm, long, obtuse, entire or minutely lobed, 
avmless or short aywned, ; 
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