1 SB Till ANDRIA— DIGYNI A. Bromus. 



older botanists than this. Linnaeus had a specimen with a wrong 

 synonym, but knew nothing of its history, nor has he any where 

 described the species, it differs from all the foregoing in having 

 a strong, perennial, blackish root, and the ribs of the inner valve 

 of the corolla are finely downy, rather than fringed. These cha- 

 racters belong to Festuca more than to Bromus ; and if the seed 

 should prove entirely unconnected with the corolla, as I suspect, 

 it would confirm the relationship of the present plant to the 

 former genus. The numerous radical leaves are remarkable for 

 being very narrow, and fringed unequally with long, white, up- 

 right hairs ; those on the stem are broader, and nearly naked j 

 all of a fine deep green. Sheaths ribbed, mostly smooth ; now 

 and then bearing a few hairs, intermixed with deflexed pube- 

 scence. Stipula very short, finally torn. The stem is 2 or 3 feet 

 high. Panicle erect and close, purplish, with yellow or saffron- 

 coloured anthers. Both valves of the corolla acute, cloven j the 

 outer one lanceolate, angular, smooth or downy, more or less 

 compressed, with two strong distant ribs, and 1 or 2 short slight 

 ones, at each side. Awn from just below the membranous point, 

 stout and straight. Styles rather distant. Nectary acute, deeply 

 cloven, tumid at the base. 



8. B. aspcr. Hairy Wood Brome- grass. 



.panicle drooping, branched. Spikelets linear-oblong. Flo- 

 rets about eight, rather distant, lanceolate, compressed, 

 downy. Awns shorter than the glumes. Leaves uni- 

 form ; lower ones hairy. 



B.asper. Linn. SupplAl J. Willd.v.l. 432. Fl. Br. 133. Engl. 



Bot.v.\7.t.M72. Tr. of Linn. Soc.v.4. 293. Mart. Rust. t.\26. 



Knapp t. 85. Hook. Scot. 42. Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 360. Host 



Gram. v. 1.6. t. 7. Ehrh. Phyt. 42. 

 B. ramosus. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 13. 102 3 but not Mant. 34. 



Cullum 40. 

 B. nemoralis. Huds. 51. 

 B. nemorosus. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 117. 

 B. hirsutus. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t. 8. 

 B. montanus. Pollich v. J . 1 16. Relz. Obs.fasc. 2. 7. 

 Poa n. 44. Gmel. Sib. v. \. UQ. t.2\ ; from the author. 

 Gramen avenaceum dumetorum, panicula sparsa. Rait Syn. 415. 

 G. avenaceum dumetorum paniculatum majus hirsutum. Moris. 



v. 3. 213. sect. 8. t.7.f.27. 



In moist woods and hedges. 



Annual, or biennial. July, August. 



Root of many stout, pale, spreading fibres. Stem erect, from 4 to 

 6 feet high, round, leafy ; smooth in the upper part. Leaves 

 spreading, deep green, lanceolate, pointed, harsh, many-ribbed, 

 a foot long, and f of an inch broad, fringed at the edges, espe- 



