TRIANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bromus. 153 



Festuca graminea, glumis hirsutis. Bauh. Pin. 9. Theatr. 143,/. 

 Scheuchz. Agr. 250. t. 5./. 9. 



F. spicis habitioribus, glumis incanis. Petiv. Concord. Gram.n. 106. 

 Dill, in Raii Syn. 414. 



In cornfields, rare. 



Between Edinburgh and New Haven. 



Annual, July. 



Scarcely so tall as the foregoing. Panicle with almost entirely 

 simple branches, and fewer spikelets, which are larger, and their 

 glumes clothed all over with soft pubescence. Florets never be- 

 coming separated, or cylindrical, but remaining contiguous, or 

 crowded ; though rather less so, and at the same time more nu- 

 merous, in our specimen than in those sent by Professor Schra- 

 der, on whom I am obliged to rely for its not being B. multi- 

 Jlorus of Weigel, which he declares to be arvensis. 



Haller confounded this and the preceding under his n. 1502. 



3. B. mollis. Soft Brome-grass. 



Panicle erect, rather close, compound. Spikelets ovate, 

 downy. Florets imbricated, depressed, ribbed. Awns 

 as long as the glumes. Leaves and sheaths very soft and 

 downy. 



B. mollis. Linn. Sp. PI. 112. Willd.v. 1.429. Ft. Br. 126. Engl. 



Bot. v. 15. t. 1078. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 4. 284. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. 



t. 8. Mart. Rust. t. 99. Knapp t.77> Hook. Scot. 41. Sincl. 59. 



Schrad. Germ. v. 1.351. Host Gram. v.\.\6.t.\9. Schreb. 



Gram. v. 1.60.*. 6./. 1,2. Leers37. t.\ I./. 1. Weig.Obs.7. 



t. \.f. 4. Ehrh. Calam.55. 

 B. polymorphus a. Huds. 48. 

 B. hordeaceus. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1. 77. 

 B. n. 1504. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 236. 



Festuca avenacea hirsuta, paniculis minus sparsis. Raii Syn. 4 1 3. 

 Gramen avenaceum pratense, panicula squamata et villosa. Moris. 



v.3.2\3.sect.8.t.7.f.\8. 



G. avenaceum, locustis villosis angustis candicantibus et aristatis. 

 Scheuchz. Agr. 254. t. 5./. 12. 



In fields and pastures every where, as well as on waste ground, 

 walls, and banks. 



Biennial. June. 



Root fibrous, whitish. Stem 2 feet high, or more, in good ground, 

 much more dwarf, scarcely 2 or 3 inches, in dry barren places, 

 when it becomes B. nanus of Weigel, Obs. 8. t.l.f. 9, as we have 

 it from himself. The leaves are very soft to the touch, hoary 

 with fine, short, dense hairs, as are also the sheaths, but the 

 stem more frequently smooth, with downy joints, or knots. «S^- 

 pula short, with an obtuse point. Panicle 2 or 3 inches long, 

 hoary and downv all over, a little spreading when in full flower, 



