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16. BROMUS CILIATUS L. Sp. PI. 1: 76. 



Am. 1: 6.5. 1803. (Fig. 16.) 



1753. Bromim rnnndensifi Mx. Fl. Bor. 



A tall, rather slender, leafy perennial with a broad, lax, drooping panicle. Culms 



erect, smooth or slightly pubescent at the dark nodes, about 7-12 dm. high. 



Sheaths retrorsely short-pilose or nearly smooth, coarsely striate; ligule very 



shorl, rarely exceeding 1 mm.; blades rather broadly linear-lanceolate, weak, about 



2.5-3.5 dm. long and 1 cm. broad, typically sparsely pilose on both sides, but 



sometimes almost smooth. Panicle very broadly pyramidal, about 1.5-2.5 dm. 



long; lower branches 2-4 long, slender, flexuous, drooping. Spikelets narrow, 



5-9-tlowered, 15-22 mui. long on 



slender, flexuous pedicels; empty 



glumes narrow, smooth; the lower 



1-nerved, acute, 5-8 mm. long; the 



upper broader, obtuse, 8-11 mm. 



long, 3-nerved; flowering glumes 



narrow, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse 



and slightly bifid at the apex, dis- 

 tinctly 3 or faintly 5-7-nerved, 



ciliate-pubescent on each side from 



the outer nerve to the margin for 



about three-fourths the length, 10-12 



mm. long; awn slender, straight, 



3-5 mm. long; palea narrow, 



nearly equaling the glume; ra- 



chilla slender, thinly pubescent. 

 General distribution: Newfoundland 



to New York, west to Manitoba 



and ^Minnesota. 

 Type grown at Upsala, Sweden, from 



seed sent from Canada by Kalm. 

 Specimens examined.— Neufoundland: 



Shoal Point (A. Waghorne 49); 



Chimney Cove (A. Waghorne 48); 



Exploits River (Robinson and 



Schrenk inl894). Northmst Ter- 

 ritory: Severn River (J. M. Ma- 



coun in 1886). Manitoba: Bran- 

 don (J. M. Macoun 13042 ) . Maine: 



East Auburn (E. D. Merrill 18, 



24, 33, 34); ex herb. M. S. C. 



(Jackman 6); Van Buren (M. L. 



Fernald 195); Cape Elizabeth (E. 



E. Gayte 873). Ken' Hampshire: 



Jaffrey (B. L. Robinson 336). 



Vermont: Manchester (M. A. Day 



214,217). Massachusetts: Ipswich 



(Oakes). New York: McKenzie Pond (C. H. Peck 9); South Branch (F. 



Tweedy in 1879); (W. R. Dudley in 1884); Lebanon Springs (A. K. Harrison 



44); Oriskany (Geo. Vasey in 1841). Michigan: Keweenaw Point (F. E. Wood 



3515); Rochester (0. A. Farwell 536a — a small form). Wisconsin: Tomahawk 



(L. S. Cheney 2198). Mlnne.^ota: (F. F. Wood 1889). 

 Linnaeus's good description of this species leaves little chance for doubt as to the 



identity of the plant. According to Dr. Gray, Bromus kalmii in Linnaeus's her- 



FiG. 15. — Bromus ramosus: a, Empty glumes; 

 b, the florets. 



